Drawing in particular on the work of Sraffa, Smith, Ricardo and Marx, the essays in this volume explore the characteristic features of the Classical economists' approach to economic problems, and the renewal of interest in that approach in modern times.

Heinz D. Kurz is Emeritus Professor of Economics at the University of Graz, Austria, and Fellow of the Graz Schumpeter Centre.

Neri Salvadori is Professor of Economics at the University of Pisa, Italy.

(1) An Introduction (I) Classical Economics, old and new (2) Heinz D. Kurz, 2015. "David Ricardo: on the art of "elucidating economic principles" in the face of a "labyrinth of difficulties"", The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 22(5), pp. 818-851. (3) Giuseppe Freni and Neri Salvadori, 2019. "Ricardo on machinery: an analysis of Ricardo's examples", The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 26(3), pp, 537--553. (4) Neri Salvadori and Rodolfo Signorino, "Mark Blaug revisited: A rebel with many causes." [[A revised version of the review published in the Journal of the History of Economic Thought, vol. 37(04), pp. 615-623, 2015.]] (II) On Sraffa's contribution (5). Giuseppe Freni and Neri Salvadori, 2013. "The construction of the long-run market supply curves: Some notes on Sraffa's critique of partial equilibrium analysis", in Enrico Sergio Levrero, Antonella Palumbo, Antonella Stirati (eds), Sraffa and the Reconstruction of Economic Theory: Volume Three. Sraffa's Legacy: Interpretations and Historical Perspectives, Basingstoke (U.K.) and New York (USA): Palgrave Macmillan, 2013, pp. 189-216. (6) Heinz D. Kurz and Neri Salvadori, 2015. "Classical Economics after Sraffa", Cahiers d'économie politique / Papers in Political Economy, vol. 69, pp. 45-72. (7) Heinz D. Kurz and Neri Salvadori, 2018. "On the "photograph" interpretation of Piero Sraffa's production equations: A view from the Sraffa archive", in Marcella Corsi,¿ Jan Kregel, Carlo D'Ippoliti (eds), Classical Economics Today: Essays in Honor of Alessandro Roncaglia, London: Anthem Press, pp. 113-128. (III) Production of Commodities by Means of Commodities in its making (8) Christian Gehrke and Heinz D. Kurz, 2018. "Sraffa's Constructive and Interpretive Work, and Marx", Review of Political Economy, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 30(3), pp. 428-442, July. (9) Heinz D. Kurz, 2012. "Don't treat too ill my Piero! Interpreting Sraffa's papers", Cambridge Journal of Economics, Oxford University Press, vol. 36(6), pp. 1535-1569. (10) Neri Salvadori, 2011. "Besicovitch, Sraffa, and the existence of the Standard commodity", in Neri Salvadori and Christian Gehrke (eds), Keynes, Sraffa and the Criticism of Neoclassical Theory. Essays in honour of Heinz Kurz, London and New York: Routledge, 2011, pp 113-131. (11) Heinz D. Kurz and Neri Salvadori, 2014. "Piero Sraffa's early work on joint production: probing into the intricacies of multiple-product systems", in Fabrice Tricou and Daniella Leeman (eds), Èconomie mathématique et Histoire: Hommage à Christian Bidard, Paris: Presses universitaires de Paris Ouest, 2014, pp. 55-73. (IV) Competition and monopoly (12) Neri Salvadori and Rodolfo Signorino, 2013. "The Classical notion of competition revisited", History of Political Economy, vol. 45(1), pp. 149-175. (13) Neri Salvadori and Rodolfo Signorino, 2014. "Adam Smith on monopoly theory. Making good a lacuna", Scottish Journal of Political Economy, vol. 61(2), pp. 178-195. (14) Heinz D. Kurz, 2016. "Adam Smith on markets, competition and violations of natural liberty", Cambridge Journal of Economics, Oxford University Press, vol. 40(2), pp. 615-638.