Sraffa, Piero 1898-1983
Archival location guide — where this economist’s surviving papers are held, their notable correspondents, and key published sources.
Born 1898 · died 1983
Piero Sraffa FBA was an influential Italian political economist who served as lecturer of economics at the University of Cambridge. His book Production of Commodities by Means of Commodities is taken as founding the neo-Ricardian school of economics.
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Personal and family papers, official papers, correspondence, notes, notes for lectures, publications, ciaries and bibliographical notes.
Sraffa Papers, Wren Library, Trinity College Cambridge
Correspondents
RICHARD FERDINAND KAHN, BARON KAHN, Correspondence 1930-38, Kahn Papers, Modern Archive Centre, King’s College Cambridge.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES, BARON KEYNES, Correspondence 1921-1946, Keynes Papers, Modern Archive Centre, King’s College Cambridge
LIONEL CHARLES ROBBINS, Correspondence 1948-68, Robbins Papers, British Library of Political and Economic Science (BLPES)
JOAN VIOLET ROBINSON, Correspondence 1931-51, Joan Robinson Papers, Modern Archive Centre, King’s College Cambridge
Printed Sources
Nicholas Kaldor, ‘Piero Sraffa 1898-1983, Proceedings of the British Academy, LXXI (1985) 615-40
ODNB; New Palgrave IV 445-52
Maria Cristina Marcuzzo & Annalisa Rosselli, Economists in Cambridge: A Study Through Their Correspondence (London 2005)