Abstract
Scholars who in recent years have studied the Sraffa papers held in the Wren Library of Trinity College, Cambridge, have concluded from Sraffa’s critical (but unpublished) observations on Chapter 17 of Keynes’s General Theory that he rejected Keynes’s central proposition that the rate of interest on money may come to ‘rule the roost’, thus dragging the economy into recession. While Sraffa does indeed express dissatisfaction with Chapter 17, the commentators have, we believe, misunderstood his concern: we suggest that he was unhappy with the ‘own-rates’ terminology employed by Keynes rather than with the substance of the theory developed in Chapter 17.
Original language | English |
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Place of Publication | Glasgow |
Publisher | University of Strathclyde |
Pages | 1-25 |
Number of pages | 26 |
Volume | 13 |
Publication status | Published - 2013 |
Keywords
- chapter 17 of keynes's general theory
- commodity-rates
- own-rates of interest