ABSTRACT
Piero Sraffa was a great economist whom I remember with warm admiration. He wrote too little, which is our loss. His reputation tends to get tied up with ideological jockeyings within our profession. Perhaps this is inevitable but I regret it-for, ideology aside, mainstream economists of the mathematical or literary persuasion can benefit much from Sraffa's contributions and also from the problems that his works pose for further investigations.
