PIERO SRAFFA -1898/1983

Preface Piero

Rule-based policy and contract systems have rarely been studied in terms of their software engineering properties. This is a serious omission, because in rule-based policy or contract representation languages rules are being used as a declarative programming language to formalize realworld decision logic and create IS production systems upon. This paper adopts a successful SE methodology, namel...

Piero Gottardi

Sraffa, Marshall and the principle of continuity

This article addresses Piero Sraffa’s critique of Alfred Marshall’s supply-anddemand framework, and Sraffa’s later book Production of Commodities, taking into account an aspect that has been relatively neglected in the literature, namely the ontology underlying the conceptions of Sraffa and Marshall. This ontological dimension can be best understood through Sraffa’s critique of the principle of...

Sen, Sraffa and the revival of classical political economy

Italia barbara: Italian primitives from Piero to Pasolini

Historians of discourse formation have demonstrated how, in the decades following the Risorgimento, Italy was fashioned as the internal ‘other’ of a new, industrial civilization that had surpassed the Mediterranean one of old. In the geopolitical map of Western Europe, Italy occupied the most distant and different territory; its proximity to Africa and the Near East, its heterogeneous racial ma...