International Conference on Sraffa’s Production of Commodities by Means of Commodities 1960–2010

CALL FOR PAPERS International Conference, 2nd – 4th December 2010
Sraffa’s Production of Commodities by Means of Commodities 1960–2010. Critique and reconstruction of economic theory

Scientific Committee: Tony Aspromourgos, Amit Bhaduri, Antonietta Campus, Guglielmo Chiodi, Giancarlo de Vivo, John Eatwell, Irina Eliseeva, Pierangelo Garegnani, Giorgio Gilibert, Andrea Ginzburg, Heinz D. Kurz, Gary Mongiovi, Guido Montani, Sergio Parrinello, Fabio Petri, Alessandro Roncaglia, Annalisa Rosselli, Neri Salvadori, Bertram Schefold, Franklin Serrano, Ian Steedman, Takashi Yagi
The year 2010 marks the 50th anniversary of the publication of Production of Commodities by Means of Commodities. For this occasion, the Centro Ricerche e Documentazione ‘Piero Sraffa’, with the support of the Università degli Studi Roma Tre, promotes an international Conference to be held in Rome, from Thursday 2nd to Saturday 4th December 2010.
The themes of the Conference are:
· The critique of the neoclassical theories of distribution and relative prices
· The revival of the Classical surplus theory: distribution, relative prices, aggregate demand and growth
· The Classical approach and its implications for economic policy and applied analysis generally
· Issues on Sraffa’s manuscripts
· The Classical revival in the present situation of economic thought and in different social and political contexts
The organization of the Conference includes plenary sessions, reserved to invited papers focussing on the above themes, and parallel sessions, concerning specific issues relating to those themes. Though most papers in the parallel sessions will also be invited, the Conference intends to host a small number of submitted papers. Scholars wishing to present a contribution on any of the Conference themes mentioned above are invited to submit an abstract (Microsoft Word or PDF format) of no more than 1200 words by May 15th, 2010. The abstract should be in English and include author information (full name, affiliation, research interests, e-mail address and/or telephone and fax number). Submissions should be addressed to sraffaconference2010@uniroma3.it in a message having as object ‘abstracts submission’.
Submissions will be reviewed by members of the Scientific Committee and authors will receive notification of acceptance by June 20th. Accepted papers in their complete form (no more than 8000 words) must be sent by e-mail to sraffaconference2010@uniroma3.it within October 10th.
All papers presented at the Conference will be made available, subject to
authors’ permission, on the Conference website.
Organization: Pierangelo Garegnani (chairman of the Centro ‘Piero Sraffa’), Roberto Ciccone, Saverio M. Fratini, E. Sergio Levrero, Antonella Palumbo, Antonella Stirati,Paolo Trabucchi, Attilio Trezzini.
Contacts: “Sraffa Conference 2010”, Centro Ricerche e Documentazione “Piero Sraffa”, via Silvio D’Amico, 77, 00145 – Roma (Italy), tel: +39–0657335662/3; fax: +39–0657335772; e-mail: sraffaconference2010@uniroma3.it
Website: www.sraffaconference2010.uniroma3.it