----------------- HES POSTING ----------------- [NOTE: Posted on behalf ofCristina Marcuzzo <[log in to unmask]>. -- RBE] Sraffa, Piero, ed. 1951-1955. The Works and Correspondence of David Ricardo. (With the collaboration of M. Dobb.) 11 volumes. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press. Both for the standard of scholarship and the novelty of interpretation this edition stands out as an unrivaled achievement in the field. Sraffa' s remorseless quest for unpublished letters, unpublished writings, biographical and historical details produced a masterpiece edition which paved the way to the discovery of the classical approach, which had been "submerged and forgotten since the advent the 'marginalist' method." The Introduction to the Principles provided the the clue to the solution of unsettled questions in classical political economy and the cornerstone to an alternative approach to theory of value and distribution. Maria Cristina Marcuzzo Universite di Roma "La Sapienza" ------------ FOOTER TO HES POSTING ------------ For information, send the message "info HES" to [log in to unmask]