ABSTRACT
Between Ricardo and Sraffa there is a two-way relationship: Sraffa places Ricardo among the sources of Production of Commodities by Means of Commodities, asserting the classical, Ricardian inspiration behind the entire work, and behind certain propositions in particular, while our present knowledge of Ricardo depends crucially on Sraffa’s critical edition of his works. In this chapter we shall be looking at one side of the relationship. I shall not be dealing with Ricardo’s influence on Sraffa and the analogy between the problems they both tackled, but with certain aspects of Sraffa’s interpretation of Ricardo. The question I address is not the nature of Sraffa’s debt to Ricardo, but rather what Ricardo owes to Sraffa.
