On alternative notions of change and choice: Krishna Bharadwaj's legacy
探讨了克里希纳·巴拉德瓦杰如何继承斯拉法思想,批判新古典的变化与选择概念,并基于古典政治经济学构建替代性理论框架,对经济思想史学者有参考价值。
Abstract Krishna Bharadwaj, following upon the work and insights of Sraffa, made substantial contributions to our understanding of what is implied in the neoclassical notion of change and its related notion of choice; in this respect she appears closer to the spirit of Sraffa’s critique of neoclassical theory than many others. She also supplemented important elements in building an alternative approach, based on classical political economy, which is free from the need to employ marginal magnitudes and does not require hypothetical or potential changes to determine the resting positions of economic variables. Moreover, the notion of choice is rescued from the parable of ‘preferences’ and given more meaningful contents, allowing for consideration of habits, customs and power relationships.