《经济理论的革命:皮耶罗·斯拉法的经济学》,帕尔格雷夫·麦克米伦出版社,2016年版,x + 244页,ISBN 978-3319306155

IF 0.3 Q4 ECONOMICS
Romar Correa
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《经济理论的革命:皮耶罗·斯拉夫的经济学》,帕尔格雷夫·麦克米伦出版社,2016年,x + 244页,ISBN 978-3319306155皮耶罗·斯拉夫1960年的颠覆性经典是有史以来最精悍、最有力的一篇冲击经济学正统核心的文章。这本书不到一百页,每一个字都是精心挑选的。数学计算是透明和建设性的。在他对这本薄薄的书的评论中,Ajit Sinha不止一次地将其美学称为“极简主义艺术”的代表。由于辛哈长期以来一直孜孜不倦地在主要期刊上发表,在本文所述的书中精心诠释了斯拉法的演变,因此这位独立学者的美学也值得关注。辛哈教授仔细地注释,与富有想象力的数学家合作,坚决推动了斯拉法议程(Cockshott & Sinha, 2008;Sinha & Dupertuis 2009A, 2009B)。印度浦那戈卡莱政治与经济学院的墙壁上曾经挂着琼·米罗的版画,以反映当时院长阿吉特·辛哈的情感。这些版画展示了软木塞、羽毛和帽针等日常用品。它们不是多维的,必须被选择。以特定的方式排列,它们成为艺术作品(Combalia, 2008)。米罗寻求“暗杀绘画”,一种对当时主流的反抗(Rowell, 1987, pp. 114-116)。然而,他从未成为任何一个对立阵营的成员。因此,他的作品是超现实的,但他不像他那个时代的超现实主义者。sinha - raffa的思想重建不仅从经验经济开始,而且,正如我们将看到的,以作为一个整体的生产系统的经验经济结束。结构的组成部分在国民核算系统的意义上是统计给出的,但必须选择和安排部门,以代表一个循环的经济。为了在下面提出一个关于经济系统指标的观点,我们观察到经济将具有丰富的多样性,具有许多技术系数,不同部门的利润率等等。这突破性的第一步表明了企业的雄心。在主流或激进政治经济学中,没有其他研究方案起源于经验经济学。例如,一般均衡理论(GE)遵循了布尔巴基公理定理证明的实践。在这一点上,辛哈哀叹,坎塔布里亚人在“首都之争”中战胜了来自马萨诸塞州剑桥的对手。重点讨论了资本在生产函数中的意义及其聚集问题。但是,一旦一个完整的通用电气模型被指定,新古典主义/非新古典主义的划分就可以被掩盖,边际(不是双关语!)的失误也可以被承认。通用电气的理论家们继续着放松公理、解决难题和证明新定理的工作。另一方面,伊拉克人的研究方案长期以来一直显示出退化的迹象。部分是独立的,部分是作为对通用电气理论的回应,基于主体的建模,公理的实验室测试,以及类似的东西最近获得了他们应得的诺贝尔奖。其目的是研究人们的真实想法,他们实际上做了什么,市场是如何运作的,等等。异质性是现代经济学的战斗口号。斯拉法这本书的副标题和它的标题一样具有革命性:对经济理论进行批判的前奏。众所周知,斯拉法对前进的最佳方式含糊其词。辛哈的艰苦努力使斯拉法的书中的音乐从序曲变成了赋格曲。作为一名指挥家,他所做的不过是大量引用斯拉法自己的笔记——这些笔记现在可供剑桥大学雷恩图书馆的其他学者查阅——几乎没有任何干预。他把不同的乐章并列在一起,让读者自己创作音乐。事实证明,副标题中的经济理论并不排斥古典经济学。…
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Review of Ajit Sinha, A Revolution in Economic Theory: The Economics of Piero Sraffa, Palgrave Macmillan, 2016, x + 244 pages, ISBN 978-3319306155
Review of Ajit Sinha, A Revolution in Economic Theory: The Economics of Piero Sraff a, Palgrave Macmillan, 2016, x + 244 pages, ISBN 978-3319306155Piero Sraffa's 1960 subversive classic was the leanest, most muscular missive ever to strike at the heart of economics orthodoxy. Short of a hundred pages, every word of the book was chosen with care. The math was transparent and constructive. More than once throughout his review of this slim volume, Ajit Sinha refers to its aesthetics as a representation of 'minimalist art'. Since Sinha has long and assiduously, over publication in leading journals, crafted an interpretation of Sraffa's evolution in the book under review, the aesthetics of this independent scholar also merit attention. Careful with exegesis, Professor Sinha has collaborated with imaginative mathematicians to push the Sraffa agenda decidedly forward (Cockshott & Sinha, 2008; Sinha & Dupertuis 2009A, 2009B).The walls of the Gokhale Institute of Politics & Economics in Pune, India, were once adorned with the prints of Joan Miro to reflect sensibilities of the then Director, Ajit Sinha. These prints display everyday objects like a cork, a feather and a hatpin. They are not multidimensional and must be chosen. Arranged in a particular manner, they become works of art (Combalia, 2008). Miro sought the 'assassination of painting', a revolt against the mainstream of the day (Rowell, 1987, pp. 114-116). However, he never became a member of either of the opposing camps. Thus, his work was surreal but he was unlike the surrealists of his time.The Sinha-Sraffa intellectual reconstruction not only starts with an empirical economy but also, as we will see, ends with the empirical economy as a system of production as a whole. The components of the structure are statistical givens in the sense of a system of National Accounts, but the sectors must be chosen and arranged to represent an economy cast in circular terms. To raise a point about metrics of an economic system below, we observe that the economy will be rich in variety, with many technological coefficients, differing profit rates across sectors, and so on. This ground-breaking first step demonstrates the ambition of the enterprise. No other research programme in either mainstream or radical political economy originates in an empirical economy. General Equilibrium theory (GE), for instance, follows the Bourbaki practice of axiom-theoremproof. On this score, Sinha rues the went on with the exultation of the Cantabrians over their foes from Cambridge, Massachusetts in the 'capital controversy'. The focus was the meaning of capital in the production function and the aggregation problem. But once a complete GE model was specified, the neoclassical / non neoclassical divide could be glossed over, and the marginal (no pun intended!) slip could be conceded. GE theorists went on with the the job of relaxing axioms, solving conundrums, and proving new theorems. The research programme of the Sraffians, on the other hand, has long shown signs of degeneracy. Partly independently and partly as a response to GE theory, agentbased modelling, laboratory testing of axioms, and the like have lately garnered their fair share of Nobel prizes. The idea is to look at how people really think, what they in fact do, how markets actually work, and so on. Heterogeneity is the rallying cry of modern economics.The subtitle of Sraffa's book is as revolutionary as its title: Prelude to a critique of economic theory. Sraffa was famously noncommittal about the best way to move forward. Sinha's painstaking efforts have transformed the music of Sraffa's book from a prelude to a fugue. As a conductor, he has done no more than quote copiously from Sraffa's own notes - notes which are now available to other scholars at the Wren Library in Cambridge - with minimal interventions. Having juxtaposed various movements, he leaves the reader to create the music for herself. The economic theory of the subtitle, it turns out, does not exclude classical economics. …
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