What can/ought be done?

It is impossible to know what Sraffa would have replied to these comments. Sup­posing that he accepted the need of another nomological sentence relating his the­oretic terms to non-theoretic ones, we will never know which would be his candidates for this last role. Yet, the prominence of prices, profit rates and wages suggests that we are before a sort of theory of value. If we follow this route, the theory could be completed as a theory of these magnitudes. If that is

Note

1 The notation exemplified by ‘D3/ 12/7’ is a canonical way of referring to Sraffa’s doc­uments in the Wren Library.

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