Giancarlo De Vivo
Biographic Data
| ID | 1600452 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Giancarlo De Vivo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Giancarlo |
| FAMILY NAME | De Vivo |
| SIGNATURE | DE VIVO G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Naples Federico II |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Luigi Pasinetti 1930–2023
Journal Article LUIGI PASINETTI 1930–2023 Get access Murray Milgate, Murray Milgate Queens’ College, University of Cambridge Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar John Eatwell, John Eatwell Queens’ College, University of Cambridge Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Giancarlo de Vivo Giancarlo de Vivo Università degli Studi di Napoli Search for other works by this author on: …
Marx and Sraffa: A Comment on Gehrke and Kurz
This comment focuses on the assertion by Gehrke and Kurz (2018) that the origin of the equations which formed the backbone of Sraffa’s Production of Commodities by Means of Commodities is not related in any way to Marx, and particularly Marx’s reproduction schemes, as argued by the late Giorgio Gilibert and myself. This comment argues that the 2018 article by Gehrke and Kurz makes significant—but unacknowledged—retreats from positions previously …
Marx’s Pamphletist: Charles Wentworth Dilke and His Tract on the Source and Remedy of the National Difficulties (1821)
This paper considers a largely unknown pamphlet, originally published anonymously in 1821, and assesses its place in the history of classical and Marxian thinking about value, surplus value and profits. It identifies its author and outlines his career and background in the context of nineteenth-century British politics
On Sraffa’s Library
Marguerite Yourcenar famously wrote that ‘One of the best ways to reconstruct a man’s thinking is to rebuild his library’. Yet, the case of the reconstruction of Sraffa’s library is I believe different, and more complex than Yourcenar’s sentence implies. While starting to think about what I would say today, I asked myself what I thought I would be doing by putting together the catalogue of Sraffa’s library, when back in 1992 in conversation with …
Profits Depend on Wages’: Ricardo's Principle and Its Early Demise
The present paper deals with one of the most important principles of Ricardo's theory: namely, the idea that profits ‘depend on wages’ and only on wages, varying inversely with them. After an examination of the actual contents of this principle in Ricardo, and its relationship with his theory of value, we discuss first the dispute about the principle between Ricardo and Malthus, then its progressive abandonment by Ricardo's self-appointed ‘genuin…
Whatever Happened to Ricardo's Theory of Value? Mill, McCulloch, and the Case of ‘Oak-Trees’ and ‘Wine’
This paper deals with the fate of Ricardo's theory of value after Ricardo's death in 1823. We will show how Mill and McCulloch, the self-appointed ‘two and only genuine disciples’ of Ricardo, starting from being in a sense more Ricardian than Ricardo, really in the end gave up Ricardo's theory. The important and difficult question was of course that of the ‘modifications’ to the ‘general rule’ that the relative values of commodities are determine…
Some Notes on Marx's Role in the Development of Sraffa's Thought
I have argued as long ago as 1998, and more recently in a paper published in this journal in 2003, that the beginnings of Sraffa's work for Production of Commodities—identified as the formulation in 1927 of some systems of equations, which later brought him to the equations we find in the book—owed much to his (re)reading of Marx, at the time when he started to prepare the lectures on ‘Advanced theory of value’, he was supposed to give in Cambrid…
Towards a New Understanding of Sraffa. Insights from Archival Research
After a big initial impact and remarkable successes, of which the 1960s debates on capital theory were the apex, the line of research stemming from Sraffa's work has not delivered what that initial push had encouraged many to believe it would deliver. This is not to say it has achieved little, but many expectations were certainly disappointed. There are of course different possible explanations for this, many of which may actually complement rath…
The First Translator in English of Turgot's Réflexions Sur La Formation Et La Distribution Des Richesses: Benjamin Vaughan
The main aim of this article is to identify the first translator in English of Turgot's Réflexions sur la formation et la distribution des richesses, one of the most important economic works of all time. The translation, which appeared in book form in 1793, was first serialized in 1791-92 in an obscure English periodical. We show that the translator was Benjamin Vaughan (1751-1835), an interesting figure of the Enlightenment, previously known mos…
Samuel Bailey and the Subversion of the Classical Theory of Value: A Note
This note deals with the rôle Bailey played in the subversion of the Classical theory of value. It is argued that there was one crucial element which he contributed to this development, viz. the distinction of commodities into three classes, each having its own law of value: the identification of an intermediate class, made of ‘Commodities, in the production of which some persons possess greater facilities than the rest of the community, and whic…
Malthus's Theory of the 'Constant Value Of Labour
This paper deals with the conception, put forward by Malthus in his 1823 tract The Measure of Value (and also in later writings), that the value of labour is ‘constant’, and therefore the value of labour (i.e. labour commanded) rather than labour embodied is the true ‘invariable measure’ of value—thus also the true ‘cause’ of value. This conception is discussed here and shown to contain interesting points, such as a ‘corn ratio’ theory of profits…
Robert Torrens as a ‘neglected economist’
On rent, Seligman's claim is based on the fact that in the first edition of the Essay on the External Corn Trade (1815) Torrens conceives rent as a ‘net surplus’, which is undoubtedly true, but not in itself very significant: Adam Smith had already written of rent as surplus produce,18 and following Smith the same conception is to be found in a number of authors, for instance in Spence's 1807 tract Britain Independent of Commerce, which Torrens c…
A Reply to Charles, Perrot and There
Let me start with saying that there is one point in the Reply of Charles, Perrot, and Théré (CPT) on which I fully agree: in the critical edition of the works of a classic author, it is wise to refrain as much as possible from attempting to provide an interpretation of his thought. But while I certainly made many negative – some admittedly harsh – remarks on their edition of Quesnay, I am unable to see what in my article could have suggested that…
Gramsci, Sraffa e la «famigerata lettera» di Grieco
Gramsci, Sraffa and Grieco's «notorious» Letter discusses an important episode in the prison life of Gramsci: that of a letter sent him by his comrade Grieco in 1928, a letter Gramsci suspected to have been sent with the aim of damaging his position in the impending trial before the Fascist "Tribunale Speciale". The thesis put forward by Luciano Canfora, that the letter had been tampered with by the police, with the addition of the compromising p…
Anglo-Saxon vs Continental Scholarship: On Critical Editions of Economic Classics
The present paper discusses different editions of economic classics, in particular focusing on the recent edition of the economic works of François Quesnay, published by the Paris Institut National d'Études Démographiques . It is argued that its quality is well below the standards one is entitled to expect for the critical edition of one of the most important economists of all time
The Biographical Dictionary of British Economists
DONALD RUTHERFORD (ED.), The Biographical Dictionary of British Economists, 2 vols, Thoemmes Continuum, Bristol, 2004, pp. xxv+1330. Economics dictionaries have a long history. Already in the eighteenth century they were being produced in great numbers, especially in France, but these were mostly handbooks for merchants and business men in general (normally titled Dictionnaire du Commerce,1 or similar), and were rather distant from what we today …
A Rejoinder
Journal Article A REJOINDER Get access Giancarlo De Vivo Giancarlo De Vivo Università di Napoli Federico II Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Contributions to Political Economy, Volume 25, Issue 1, August 2006, Pages 89–90, https://doi.org/10.1093/cpe/bzl011 Published: 23 June 2006
Sraffa's path to Production of Commodities by Means of Commodities. An interpretation
The present article provides a reconstruction of the path followed by Sraffa in the long journey (begun in the late 1920s) which brought him to his 1960 book. The starting point of Sraffa's research was the formulation of his cost‐price equations, which surprisingly enough appear to have been derived neither from Ricardo's theory of value, nor from Marx's ‘transformation of values into prices of production’, but rather from Marx's reproduction sc…
(Mis)interpreting Ricardo
(MIS)INTERPRETING RICARDO GIANCARLO DE VIVO GIANCARLO DE VIVO Università di Napoli Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Contributions to Political Economy, Volume 13, Issue 1, 1994, Pages 29–43, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.cpe.a035628 Published: 01 June 1994
Marshall's Position in the Development of Economic Theory
Ricardo and his disciples: Orthodoxy and socialism
Torrens on Value and Distribution
Journal Article TORRENS ON VALUE AND DISTRIBUTION Get access GIANCARLO DE VIVO GIANCARLO DE VIVO Università di Modena Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Contributions to Political Economy, Volume 5, Issue 1, March 1986, Pages 23–36, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.cpe.a035703 Published: 01 March 1986
Robert Torrens and Ricardo's ‘corn-ratio’ theory of profits
Journal Article Robert Torrens and Ricardo's ‘corn-ratio’ theory of profits Get access Giancarlo de Vivo Giancarlo de Vivo *Università di ModenaItaly Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Cambridge Journal of Economics, Volume 9, Issue 1, March 1985, Pages 89–92, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.cje.a035567 Published: 01 March 1985
The Author of the Article on Owen in the October 1819 Edinburgh Review: Some Neglected Evidence. With a Reply by William O. Thweatt
Research Article| June 01 1985 The Author of the Article on Owen in the October 1819 Edinburgh Review: Some Neglected Evidence. With a Reply by William O. Thweatt Giancarlo de Vivo Giancarlo de Vivo Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (1985) 17 (2): 199–202. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-17-2-199 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Giancarlo de Vivo; The A…
Notes on Marx's Critique of Ricardo
Journal Article NOTES ON MARX'S CRITIQUE OF RICARDO Get access GIANCARLO DE VIVO GIANCARLO DE VIVO Universitá di ModenaItaly Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Contributions to Political Economy, Volume 1, Issue 1, March 1982, Pages 87–99, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.cpe.a035655 Published: 01 March 1982
Towards a New Understanding of Sraffa. Insights from Archival Research
After a big initial impact and remarkable successes, of which the 1960s debates on capital theory were the apex, the line of research stemming from Sraffa's work has not delivered what that initial push had encouraged many to believe it would deliver. This is not to say it has achieved little, but many expectations were certainly disappointed. There are of course different possible explanations for this, many of which may actually complement rath…
Some Notes on Marx's Role in the Development of Sraffa's Thought
I have argued as long ago as 1998, and more recently in a paper published in this journal in 2003, that the beginnings of Sraffa's work for Production of Commodities—identified as the formulation in 1927 of some systems of equations, which later brought him to the equations we find in the book—owed much to his (re)reading of Marx, at the time when he started to prepare the lectures on ‘Advanced theory of value’, he was supposed to give in Cambrid…
Malthus's Theory of the 'Constant Value Of Labour
This paper deals with the conception, put forward by Malthus in his 1823 tract The Measure of Value (and also in later writings), that the value of labour is ‘constant’, and therefore the value of labour (i.e. labour commanded) rather than labour embodied is the true ‘invariable measure’ of value—thus also the true ‘cause’ of value. This conception is discussed here and shown to contain interesting points, such as a ‘corn ratio’ theory of profits…
Notes on Marx's Critique of Ricardo
Journal Article NOTES ON MARX'S CRITIQUE OF RICARDO Get access GIANCARLO DE VIVO GIANCARLO DE VIVO Universitá di ModenaItaly Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Contributions to Political Economy, Volume 1, Issue 1, March 1982, Pages 87–99, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.cpe.a035655 Published: 01 March 1982
Luigi Pasinetti 1930–2023
Journal Article LUIGI PASINETTI 1930–2023 Get access Murray Milgate, Murray Milgate Queens’ College, University of Cambridge Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar John Eatwell, John Eatwell Queens’ College, University of Cambridge Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Giancarlo de Vivo Giancarlo de Vivo Università degli Studi di Napoli Search for other works by this author on: …
Marx’s Pamphletist: Charles Wentworth Dilke and His Tract on the Source and Remedy of the National Difficulties (1821)
This paper considers a largely unknown pamphlet, originally published anonymously in 1821, and assesses its place in the history of classical and Marxian thinking about value, surplus value and profits. It identifies its author and outlines his career and background in the context of nineteenth-century British politics
On Sraffa’s Library
Marguerite Yourcenar famously wrote that ‘One of the best ways to reconstruct a man’s thinking is to rebuild his library’. Yet, the case of the reconstruction of Sraffa’s library is I believe different, and more complex than Yourcenar’s sentence implies. While starting to think about what I would say today, I asked myself what I thought I would be doing by putting together the catalogue of Sraffa’s library, when back in 1992 in conversation with …
The First Translator in English of Turgot's Réflexions Sur La Formation Et La Distribution Des Richesses: Benjamin Vaughan
The main aim of this article is to identify the first translator in English of Turgot's Réflexions sur la formation et la distribution des richesses, one of the most important economic works of all time. The translation, which appeared in book form in 1793, was first serialized in 1791-92 in an obscure English periodical. We show that the translator was Benjamin Vaughan (1751-1835), an interesting figure of the Enlightenment, previously known mos…
Samuel Bailey and the Subversion of the Classical Theory of Value: A Note
This note deals with the rôle Bailey played in the subversion of the Classical theory of value. It is argued that there was one crucial element which he contributed to this development, viz. the distinction of commodities into three classes, each having its own law of value: the identification of an intermediate class, made of ‘Commodities, in the production of which some persons possess greater facilities than the rest of the community, and whic…
Anglo-Saxon vs Continental Scholarship: On Critical Editions of Economic Classics
The present paper discusses different editions of economic classics, in particular focusing on the recent edition of the economic works of François Quesnay, published by the Paris Institut National d'Études Démographiques . It is argued that its quality is well below the standards one is entitled to expect for the critical edition of one of the most important economists of all time
Notes on Marx's Critique of Ricardo
Journal Article NOTES ON MARX'S CRITIQUE OF RICARDO Get access GIANCARLO DE VIVO GIANCARLO DE VIVO Universitá di ModenaItaly Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Contributions to Political Economy, Volume 1, Issue 1, March 1982, Pages 87–99, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.cpe.a035655 Published: 01 March 1982
Robert Torrens and Ricardo's ‘corn-ratio’ theory of profits
Journal Article Robert Torrens and Ricardo's ‘corn-ratio’ theory of profits Get access Giancarlo de Vivo Giancarlo de Vivo *Università di ModenaItaly Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Cambridge Journal of Economics, Volume 9, Issue 1, March 1985, Pages 89–92, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.cje.a035567 Published: 01 March 1985
The Author of the Article on Owen in the October 1819 Edinburgh Review: Some Neglected Evidence. With a Reply by William O. Thweatt
Research Article| June 01 1985 The Author of the Article on Owen in the October 1819 Edinburgh Review: Some Neglected Evidence. With a Reply by William O. Thweatt Giancarlo de Vivo Giancarlo de Vivo Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (1985) 17 (2): 199–202. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-17-2-199 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Giancarlo de Vivo; The A…
Torrens on Value and Distribution
Journal Article TORRENS ON VALUE AND DISTRIBUTION Get access GIANCARLO DE VIVO GIANCARLO DE VIVO Università di Modena Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Contributions to Political Economy, Volume 5, Issue 1, March 1986, Pages 23–36, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.cpe.a035703 Published: 01 March 1986
Ricardo and his disciples: Orthodoxy and socialism
Marshall's Position in the Development of Economic Theory
(Mis)interpreting Ricardo
(MIS)INTERPRETING RICARDO GIANCARLO DE VIVO GIANCARLO DE VIVO Università di Napoli Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Contributions to Political Economy, Volume 13, Issue 1, 1994, Pages 29–43, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.cpe.a035628 Published: 01 June 1994
Sraffa's path to Production of Commodities by Means of Commodities. An interpretation
The present article provides a reconstruction of the path followed by Sraffa in the long journey (begun in the late 1920s) which brought him to his 1960 book. The starting point of Sraffa's research was the formulation of his cost‐price equations, which surprisingly enough appear to have been derived neither from Ricardo's theory of value, nor from Marx's ‘transformation of values into prices of production’, but rather from Marx's reproduction sc…
The Biographical Dictionary of British Economists
DONALD RUTHERFORD (ED.), The Biographical Dictionary of British Economists, 2 vols, Thoemmes Continuum, Bristol, 2004, pp. xxv+1330. Economics dictionaries have a long history. Already in the eighteenth century they were being produced in great numbers, especially in France, but these were mostly handbooks for merchants and business men in general (normally titled Dictionnaire du Commerce,1 or similar), and were rather distant from what we today …
A Rejoinder
Journal Article A REJOINDER Get access Giancarlo De Vivo Giancarlo De Vivo Università di Napoli Federico II Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Contributions to Political Economy, Volume 25, Issue 1, August 2006, Pages 89–90, https://doi.org/10.1093/cpe/bzl011 Published: 23 June 2006
Anglo-Saxon vs Continental Scholarship: On Critical Editions of Economic Classics
The present paper discusses different editions of economic classics, in particular focusing on the recent edition of the economic works of François Quesnay, published by the Paris Institut National d'Études Démographiques . It is argued that its quality is well below the standards one is entitled to expect for the critical edition of one of the most important economists of all time
A Reply to Charles, Perrot and There
Let me start with saying that there is one point in the Reply of Charles, Perrot, and Théré (CPT) on which I fully agree: in the critical edition of the works of a classic author, it is wise to refrain as much as possible from attempting to provide an interpretation of his thought. But while I certainly made many negative – some admittedly harsh – remarks on their edition of Quesnay, I am unable to see what in my article could have suggested that…
Gramsci, Sraffa e la «famigerata lettera» di Grieco
Gramsci, Sraffa and Grieco's «notorious» Letter discusses an important episode in the prison life of Gramsci: that of a letter sent him by his comrade Grieco in 1928, a letter Gramsci suspected to have been sent with the aim of damaging his position in the impending trial before the Fascist "Tribunale Speciale". The thesis put forward by Luciano Canfora, that the letter had been tampered with by the police, with the addition of the compromising p…
Robert Torrens as a ‘neglected economist’
On rent, Seligman's claim is based on the fact that in the first edition of the Essay on the External Corn Trade (1815) Torrens conceives rent as a ‘net surplus’, which is undoubtedly true, but not in itself very significant: Adam Smith had already written of rent as surplus produce,18 and following Smith the same conception is to be found in a number of authors, for instance in Spence's 1807 tract Britain Independent of Commerce, which Torrens c…
Malthus's Theory of the 'Constant Value Of Labour
This paper deals with the conception, put forward by Malthus in his 1823 tract The Measure of Value (and also in later writings), that the value of labour is ‘constant’, and therefore the value of labour (i.e. labour commanded) rather than labour embodied is the true ‘invariable measure’ of value—thus also the true ‘cause’ of value. This conception is discussed here and shown to contain interesting points, such as a ‘corn ratio’ theory of profits…
Samuel Bailey and the Subversion of the Classical Theory of Value: A Note
This note deals with the rôle Bailey played in the subversion of the Classical theory of value. It is argued that there was one crucial element which he contributed to this development, viz. the distinction of commodities into three classes, each having its own law of value: the identification of an intermediate class, made of ‘Commodities, in the production of which some persons possess greater facilities than the rest of the community, and whic…
Towards a New Understanding of Sraffa. Insights from Archival Research
After a big initial impact and remarkable successes, of which the 1960s debates on capital theory were the apex, the line of research stemming from Sraffa's work has not delivered what that initial push had encouraged many to believe it would deliver. This is not to say it has achieved little, but many expectations were certainly disappointed. There are of course different possible explanations for this, many of which may actually complement rath…
The First Translator in English of Turgot's Réflexions Sur La Formation Et La Distribution Des Richesses: Benjamin Vaughan
The main aim of this article is to identify the first translator in English of Turgot's Réflexions sur la formation et la distribution des richesses, one of the most important economic works of all time. The translation, which appeared in book form in 1793, was first serialized in 1791-92 in an obscure English periodical. We show that the translator was Benjamin Vaughan (1751-1835), an interesting figure of the Enlightenment, previously known mos…
Some Notes on Marx's Role in the Development of Sraffa's Thought
I have argued as long ago as 1998, and more recently in a paper published in this journal in 2003, that the beginnings of Sraffa's work for Production of Commodities—identified as the formulation in 1927 of some systems of equations, which later brought him to the equations we find in the book—owed much to his (re)reading of Marx, at the time when he started to prepare the lectures on ‘Advanced theory of value’, he was supposed to give in Cambrid…
Whatever Happened to Ricardo's Theory of Value? Mill, McCulloch, and the Case of ‘Oak-Trees’ and ‘Wine’
This paper deals with the fate of Ricardo's theory of value after Ricardo's death in 1823. We will show how Mill and McCulloch, the self-appointed ‘two and only genuine disciples’ of Ricardo, starting from being in a sense more Ricardian than Ricardo, really in the end gave up Ricardo's theory. The important and difficult question was of course that of the ‘modifications’ to the ‘general rule’ that the relative values of commodities are determine…
On Sraffa’s Library
Marguerite Yourcenar famously wrote that ‘One of the best ways to reconstruct a man’s thinking is to rebuild his library’. Yet, the case of the reconstruction of Sraffa’s library is I believe different, and more complex than Yourcenar’s sentence implies. While starting to think about what I would say today, I asked myself what I thought I would be doing by putting together the catalogue of Sraffa’s library, when back in 1992 in conversation with …
Profits Depend on Wages’: Ricardo's Principle and Its Early Demise
The present paper deals with one of the most important principles of Ricardo's theory: namely, the idea that profits ‘depend on wages’ and only on wages, varying inversely with them. After an examination of the actual contents of this principle in Ricardo, and its relationship with his theory of value, we discuss first the dispute about the principle between Ricardo and Malthus, then its progressive abandonment by Ricardo's self-appointed ‘genuin…
Marx and Sraffa: A Comment on Gehrke and Kurz
This comment focuses on the assertion by Gehrke and Kurz (2018) that the origin of the equations which formed the backbone of Sraffa’s Production of Commodities by Means of Commodities is not related in any way to Marx, and particularly Marx’s reproduction schemes, as argued by the late Giorgio Gilibert and myself. This comment argues that the 2018 article by Gehrke and Kurz makes significant—but unacknowledged—retreats from positions previously …
Marx’s Pamphletist: Charles Wentworth Dilke and His Tract on the Source and Remedy of the National Difficulties (1821)
This paper considers a largely unknown pamphlet, originally published anonymously in 1821, and assesses its place in the history of classical and Marxian thinking about value, surplus value and profits. It identifies its author and outlines his career and background in the context of nineteenth-century British politics
Luigi Pasinetti 1930–2023
Journal Article LUIGI PASINETTI 1930–2023 Get access Murray Milgate, Murray Milgate Queens’ College, University of Cambridge Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar John Eatwell, John Eatwell Queens’ College, University of Cambridge Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Giancarlo de Vivo Giancarlo de Vivo Università degli Studi di Napoli Search for other works by this author on: …
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