Differences, Switches and ‘Consistently Side by Side’: Krishna Bharadwaj and the Sraffian Critique of Economic Theory

The study discusses Krishna Bharadwaj’s elaboration of the Sraffian critique currently dominating supply-and-demand equilibrium theories that are based on marginalist approach by making use documents from Sraffa archive. Starting astute observation law diminishing returns ‘was thin end wedge which marginal analysis was introduced and generalised’ is concerned with Sraffa’s treatment intensive his return to a pre-marginalist non-mechanical intensification land use. In opening part article, development friendship collaboration between Piero Bharadwaj briefly recalled, information provided in correspondence files diary entries papers. JEL Code: B24, B31, B51