The contribution to Sraffa's Legacy on the Sraffian side continue to develop the criticism of marginalism or they pertain to the history of economic thought. This attitude contrasts with the works of the Classics [who] were actively concerned with applying their theories to the important economic problems of their own time. Ricardo and Marx, in particular, did not wait until the defects of the theory of value (of which they were indeed aware) were overcome before dealing with the problem of growth, innovation and distribution in the nineteenth century.

Readers who are interested in more formal approaches are strongly encouraged to consult the work of Shiozawa et al. (2019), which complements at many points the perspective offered in this book. (p.3)

Clearly, if a knowledge of structures cannot be obtained merely through sense experience, it is hardly intelligible that they can be created out of nothing, as it were. What is a issue here, then, is a transformational conception of knowledge. From the transcendental realist perspective, knowledge progresses as existing theories, hunches, hypotheses, anomalies, and the like, come to be transformed in, and thrugh, the laborious social practice of science. (ibid. p.514)

Given that science is revealed as a laborious social practice concerned with revealing structures governing phenomena of interest, and given the open nature of the world, it follows that methodological reasoning must be constructively involved at every stage of research. (ibid. p.515)

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