Piero Sraffa’s pathbreaking book Production of Commodities by Means of Commodities (1960) inspired several reviews and books by Indian economists. The notable ones are by Krishna Bharadwaj, P. R. Brahmananda, Gautam Mathur, Sukhamoy Chakravarty, Arun Bose, A. K. Dasgupta. Sraffa’s ideas were variously employed to understand agriculture, economic growth, and development. An Indian edition of the classic was also published.

In this workshop, we will engage with the Indian reception to Sraffa’s economic thought. What are the findings based on the correspondence from Sraffa’s archive? Was there any intellectual connection between Sraffa’s work and the Indian Input-Output Research Association (IORA)? How did Indian journals receive Sraffa’s 1960 work? When and how did Sraffa’s ideas enter the syllabi of Indian universities?

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Kind regards,

Alex

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