Abstract
Among Piero Sraffa s unpublished papers is a notebook with extensive excerpts from and critical comments on three contributions of Ladislaus von Bortkiewicz: “Der Kardinalfehler der Bohm-Bawerkschen Zinstheorie” (1906), “Zur Zinstheorie. II. Entgegnung” (1907b), and “Wertrechnung und Preisrechnung im Marxschen System” (1906–7).1 The reading notes and commentaries on Bortkiewicz s three essays were mainly written between January and April 1943, with some additions in December 1945 and June 1955. It was presumably the discussion of Bortkiewicz s contributions in Paul Sweezy s Theory of Capitalist Development (1942) that brought them to Sraffa s attention, who up until then appears to have been unaware of them.2 What will perhaps come as a surprise to
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