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The article reviews the book "Working Papers."

The article focuses on the book "The Works and Correspondence of David Ricardo," edited by Piero Sraffa. The article discusses the nine volumes of the book which comprise the bulk of a total of eleven volumes. The work has been in the making for more than two decades. Of the given volumes, volume 1 contains a variorum edition of Ricardo's major work, the famous "Principles of Political Economy and Taxation," carefully annotated and with an introduction by the editor which traces the development of Ricardo's thought. Volume 2 contains Ricardo's critical notes on T.R. Maithus' "Principles of Political Economy." Here, the relevant passages from Maithus are printed together with Ricardo's comments on them, so that the reader can easily follow the pro's and con's of that historic debate. Volume 3 and IV contain various pamphlets and papers written for publication in the years 1809-1823 and notes from manuscripts, chiefly on problems of exchange and currency, international trade, and the protection of agriculture, which are otherwise difficult to access.

Presents the 'La profezia psichica,' by A. Carotenuto published in the 1978 issue of the journal 'Giornale Storico di Psicologia Dinamica.'

This review essay of Critical Essays on Piero Sraffa's Legacy in economics situates Sraffa's work in relation to the Marshallian tradition and neo-Walrasian general equilibrium theory, and reviews the current state of debate between adherents of these traditions on the role of demand, returns to scale, capital theory and policy analysis. Other issues considered include the corn model, Sraffa's critique of Hayek, and the extension of the capital theory critique to the intertemporal equilibrium model. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Discusses the political economy of central bank intervention. Exchange of rate between central bank and speculators; Sterilization of central bank intervention; Impact of shocks on exchange rate.

The article reviews the book "Economía Solidaria: Construyendo alternativas para la gente y el planeta. Papeles y reportes del Foro Social 2007 de los Estados Unidos de Norteamérica" ("Solidarity Economy: Building Alternatives for People and Planet: Papers & Reports From the 2007 US Social Forum") edited by Jenna Allard, Carl Davidson and Julie Matthaei.

This article explores how the thirteenth-century verse Vida de María Egipciaca portrays the sins, conversion, and spectacular penance of Mary of Egypt in terms of her rejection of and eventual entrance into orthodox economies. As I argue, hagiographic legends about prostitutes have economic subtexts and the Vida offers paradoxical visions of prostitution both as a foil and as an analogue for the financial metaphors that undergird the very economy of salvation. In the Vida, prostitution, as practiced by the repentant María, not only represents sexual depravity, but also a move from economic indifference and the unregulated distribution of sexual activities to a consciousness of just prices and exchange values. The poem thus offers a striking medieval articulation of Christian salvation economy, relating the salvation economy to notions of women's value as objects of exchange. In so doing, the Vida also interlaces the context of thirteenth-century Mediterranean economic culture with its poetics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article reviews the book "Koen Frenken: Innovation, Evolution and Complexity Theory," by Edward Elgar.