Piero Sraffa on utility and the 'subjective method' in the 1920s: a tentative appraisal of Sraffa's unpublished manuscripts
基于斯拉法1920年代未出版手稿，重建了他对马歇尔经济学中基于效用和个人主义的需求解释的批判，指出他质疑主观方法在理论化中的潜力，并强调对生产和消费领域相互依存现象的分析。
The paper reconstructs Sraffa's assessment of utility‐based and individualistic explanations of demand in Marshallian economics in the light of some fresh evidence provided by Sraffa's unpublished manuscripts of the 1920s. It is shown that Sraffa criticised the standard Marshallian explanation of individual consumption choices, emphasised the independent measurement requirement in explanation, lacked enthusiasm for the heuristic potentialities of the ‘subjective method’ in economic theorising and strove for an analysis of the phenomena of interdependence in the sphere of production as well as in the sphere of consumption.