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Piero Sraffa
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1898-08-05 ) 5 August 1898, Turin , Italy
- Died
- 3 September 1983 (1983-09-03) (aged 85), Cambridge , England
- Alma mater
- London School of Economics
- Influences
- Ricardo Smith Marx Keynes Einaudi
- Discipline
- Political economy
- School or tradition
- Neo-Ricardian school
- Institutions
- Trinity College, Cambridge
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Piero
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Kingdom of Italy
- Place of birth
- Turin
- Place of death
- Cambridge
- Occupation
- university teacher
- Educated at
- University of Turin
- Employer
- University of Perugia
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Image
- Piero Sraffa late-1920s.jpg
- Work location
- Perugia
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- date of birth
- 1898-08-05
- date of death
- 1983-09-03
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- Piero Sraffa
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- Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei
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Encyclopedic overview
Piero Sraffa FBA (5 August 1898 – 3 September 1983) 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.
Early life
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