ABSTRACT
Piero Sraffa's Archive at the Wren Library of Trinity College, Cambridge, includes a folder, catalogued as File D2/4, which contains a manuscript, in Sraffa's handwriting, of more than 120 pages. The manuscript is entitled ‘Sixteen Lectures in Michaelmas Term 1928–1929 Advanced Theory of Value e 1929–1930 e Lent 1931’ (hereafter Lectures); as the title indicates, it had been written by Sraffa for his course of lectures to students undertaking the economic tripos in the period from 1928 to 1931. 1
