Janus: Papers of Piero Sraffa (1898-1983), economist

Trinity/SRAFFA/D3 contains:
<-- See earlier
4	Obituary of Maffeo Pantaleoni, ms and ts
5	"Sulla Relazione fra costo e quantita prodotta" published in Annali di Economia, ms and offprint
6	"The Laws of returns under competitive conditions" published in the Economic Journal, Italian and English mss, ts, offprint, correspondence and notes including notes for a lecture ?in Perugia
7	"Increasing returns and the representative firm: a symposium" (with D H Robertson and Gerald Shove), published in the Economic Journal, notes, ms, ts, proofs, offprints and correspondence
8	"An alleged correction of Ricardo" published in the Quarterly Journal of Economics, notes, mss, ts
9	"Dr Hayek on money and capital", published in the Economic Journal, ms, ts, cuttings and correspondence with Hayek and D H Robertson
10	"Money and capital: a rejoinder", published in the Economic Journal, ms, ts and proofs
11	The Works and correspondence of David Ricardo
12	Production of commodities by means of commodities
13	"Production of commodities by means of commodities: a comment" published in the Economic Journal vol 72 notes, ms, ts correspondence and a typescript of "Harrod on Sraffa" by Joan Robinson
14	"Produzione congiunta di merci a mezzo di merci. Riposta a C F Manara" [unpublished article ?]

Papers of Piero Sraffa (1898-1983), economist

Title	Production of commodities by means of commodities
Reference	D3/12
Covering Dates
Extent and Medium	13 boxes

Content and context

Sraffa drew on notes from as early as 1926 when preparing this work. Annotations dating from the 1950s made on the files in which these notes were kept indicate the items that Sraffa felt were most important, and which were often removed to other files as he was preparing for publication, they also show his dissatisfaction with areas of his earlier work. Notes and formulae by Abram Besicovitch and others are evident in a number of these files

Trinity/SRAFFA/D3/12 contains:

Notes and formulae on price, income and profit.
8 docs.

n.d.

Notes, including some workings by Frank Ramsey and Abram Besicovich.
18 docs.

1926–55

"Notes: London, Summer 1927 (Physical real costs etc)" including preparations for lectures.
4 docs.

1927

Notes, essentially preparations for lectures 1928-31.
7 docs.

Nov 1927

Notes on "looms".
11 docs.

Winter 1927–28

Notes on surpluses.
3 docs.

Winter 1927–28

Notes, essentially on industries using hyperthetical examples, with a note on language.
67 docs.

1928–

Notes, mostly equations.
17 docs.

Lent 1928

Notebooks and notes on elasticity.
4 docs.

May-Jul 1928, May 1932

Notebook.
1 vol.

Dec 1927-Mich 1928

Notebook.
1 vol.

Nov [1927]

Notebook.
1 vol.

Summer 1929

Notes on rent and "normal profits".
13 docs.

Summer - Oct 1929

Notes on compound commodities.
6 docs.

[1942]

'First equasions (without surplus)", with quotations from Kaldor on capital.
3 docs.

[1942]

"Notes on (crosscap)".
30 docs.

1942–46

Notes: "prove and finding list".
7 docs.

1942–55

Notes.
9 docs.

1942–50

Notes on agricultural schemes.
3 docs.

Aug 1942

"Models".
26 docs.

Aug 1942

Notes on industrial scheme an miscellanea "(attempts at fixed capital)".
11 docs.

Sep 1942

Notes on "closed vertical combine".
3 docs.

Oct 1942

Notes on the notations used in the formulae of Production of Commodities.
3 docs.

Oct 1942

Notes: "Reduction".
6 docs.

Oct 1942

Notes on rent.
1 doc.

Nov 1942

Notes on value of stock, industrial equations, rotation and frequency and reduction and compounds.
1 doc.

Nov 1942

Notes on fixed capital.
17 docs.

Nov-Dec 1942

Notes on joint products.
3 docs.

Nov 1942-Mar 43

Notes on marginal production.
6 docs.

Dec 1942

"Fixed capital - final".
6 docs.

Dec 1942

Small notebook.
1 vol.

post Dec 1942

"New models".
1 doc.

Jan 1943

Notes.
32 docs.

Jan-May 1943

Notes on fixed capital and marginal production.
19 docs.

May-Aug 1943

Notes.
27 docs.

Sep 1943- Jan 1944

Notes.
29 docs.

Jan - Mar 1944

Notes "proofs for all positive one process one product".
65 docs.

Apr-Jun 1944

Notes.
55 docs.

Jul-Sep 1944

Notes.
11 docs.

Sep 1944-Jun 45

Notes.
72 docs.

Oct 1944-Jun 45

Notes.
5 docs.

Nov-Dec 1945

Notes [According to Professor Garegnani, these notes were gathered by Sraffa in preparation for a work subsequent to Production of Commodities].
36 docs.

1945–67

Notebook containing inter alia a draft of the preface.
1 vol.

post 1945

Notes.
13 docs.

Aug 1946–48

"Points possibly still useful on the balance of wages and profits".
12 docs.

Nov 1955

Notes including drafts for the preface, with a note to the reader suggested by Dobb, notes on margins, fixed capital, surplus value and insertions made May 1958.
29 docs.

1955–59

Notes for the preface and on switching, continuous production and the agricultural to industrial scheme.
6 docs.

1955–57

Notes:"Fixed capital".
34 docs.

1955–57

Notes on fixed capital and joint production.
7 docs.

1955–58

"Rubbish transferred to clean copy", drafts of early sections and of the arrangements of the argument.
20 docs.

1955

Notes "Palma, Jan - March 1955".
9 docs.

Jan-Mar 1955

"Majorca draft" of Part I.
1 doc.

Mar 1955

Notes "Discard (almost certainly)", mostly on the standard commodity.
14 docs.

Summer 1955

Notes "left at Cambridge Sept 55" on the standard commodity.
10 docs.

Aug 1955

"Proof of labour value".
4 docs.

Oct-Nov 1955

Drafts for the standard commodity.
4 docs.

Dec 1955

Draft on [the standard system].
12 docs.

Dec 1955

"Prefabricated later chapters".
12 docs.

1955–56

Notes: "balance of wages and profits".
57 docs.

1955–56

Discarded notes relating to switching.
19 docs.

1955–56

"Discarded used drafts".
22 docs.

1955–56

"Fluctuations of price with variations of r".
8 docs.

1942–56

"Useful pages abstracted from folder Oct 1956".
4 docs.

1944–56

Discarded notes on standard commodities and the standard system.
19 docs.

1956

"Something useful", notes for chapters on joint products.
16 docs.

1956–57

Notes.
30 docs.

1956–58

Notes for chapters III and V on proportions of labour and the standard system.
7 docs.

1956

"Scaffolding", drafts of paragraphs on the standard system.
18 docs.

1956

Notes on the standard system.
8 docs.

1956

Notes on the uniqueness of the standard system.
1 doc.

[1956]

"Copy used by typist" sections 1-32.
2 docs.

Mar 1956

"Copy used for second typing" sections 1-41.
1 doc.

Aug 1956

Notes on switching and rents and income in non-replacing- and sub-systems.
4 docs.

1957

Notes on non-self replacing national income and on Ricardo and Torrens in terms of Piero Sraffa's standard system.
8 docs.

1957

Discarded drafts on reduction.
7 docs.

1957

Drafts of sections 43-48.
1 doc.

Jan 1957

Footnote on joint products.
1 doc.

Jan 1957

Drafts of sections 43 and 44.
1 doc.

Mar 1957

Drafts for sections on joint products.
13 docs.

Mar 1957

Copy for typists of sections 7 and 42-65 with contents pages.
2 docs.

Mar 1957

Notes for chapter IX on effects on joint production.
15 docs.

Mar-Apr 1957

Photographic copy of a typescript of sections 1-65 entitled "Outlines of an economic system".
1 doc.

Apr 1957

"Drafts", mostly on joint production systems.
52 docs.

Apr-Jul 1957

Notes: "agony of non-basics in multiple systems".
23 docs.

Jun-Aug 1957

"Collapse of non-basics and reconstruction".
7 docs.

Jul-Aug 1957

Typescript and manuscript pages of chapters VII and VIII.
1 doc.

Aug 1957

Notes: "non-basics in multiple systems".
23 docs.

Aug-Nov 1957

Manuscript of chapter X on fixed capital and appendix A on sub-systems with retyped sections 7, 28-29, 45-47.
6 docs.

Aug 1957

Typists copy of extended list of contents, chapters VII and VIII on joint production and appendix C on the device of a basic system.
3 docs.

Dec 1957

Manuscript of chapter XII on switch in methods of production.
1 doc.

Dec 1957

Typescript of chapter IX on the effect of joint production.
1 doc.

Dec 1957

"Queries to Besicovitch on non-basics in the multiple system".
18 docs.

Sep-Nov 1957

Drafts and typescripts on non-basics.
39 docs.

Nov-Dec 1957

Letter from Abram Besicovitch providing proofs.
1 doc.

25 Dec 1957

Notes and acknowledgements in Italian.
41 docs.

1957–60

"Rent filling last gap", draft of sections 84-89 and ts of sections 7, 83, 86 and 87.
20 docs.

1958

Items for retyping (14 docs).
14 docs.

Aug 1958

"Historical appendix (references to the literature)" ms and notes.
23 docs.

Feb 1959

Appendix D (references to the literature), typists copy and typescript of the preface.
2 docs.

Feb 1959

100

Calculations and draft graphs marked "cancelled".
5 docs.

[1959]

101

"Retyped proofs", ts of chapter IX and section 83 with notes.
2 docs.

Apr 1959

102

Figures, captions and some formulae.
18 docs.

[1959]

103

Typescript.
1 doc.

Dec 1959

104

Typescript of the Italian edition.
1 doc.

Dec 1959

105

Typescript of the Italian edition.
1 doc.

Dec 1959

106

First proof.
1 doc.

Dec 1959

107

Bound first proof.
1 doc.

Dec 1959

108

Second proof.
1 doc.

Jan 1960

109

Cards for the index.
48 docs.

[1959]

110

Graphs and captions.
11 docs.

1959

111

Correspondence concerning Production of commodities.
1 bundle.

1960–

112

Correspondence relating to the printing of Production of commodities with marked proofs.
51 docs.

1958–62

113

Address list and correspondence referring to the distribution of complimentary copies.
78 docs.

1958–60

114

Correspondence on publication and part proofs for the Italian edition.
42 docs.

1960

115

Typescript and proof of a note relating to pages 47 and 48 of the Italian edition with an amendment to page 42 to be incorporated in the edition of 1969.
4 docs.

[1969]