Piero Sraffa

Piero Sraffa
Born(1898-08-05)5 August 1898
Turin, Italy
Died3 September 1983(1983-09-03) (aged 85)
Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
Academic career
FieldPolitical economy
InstitutionsTrinity College, Cambridge
School or
tradition
Neo-Ricardian school
Alma materLondon School of Economics
Influences

Piero Sraffa FBA (5 August 1898 – 3 September 1983) was an influential Italian economist who served as lecturer of economics at the University of Cambridge. His book Production of Commodities by Means of Commodities is taken as founding the neo-Ricardian school of economics.