One of Sraffa’s students, Luigi Pasinetti, crossed swords, successfully, with two eminent representatives of neoclassical economics, Solow and Samuelson, my own professors. Another of his students, Pierangelo Garegnani, continued to elaborate Sraffian capital theory. He is now working on the complete edition of Sraffa’s papers, still largely unpublished, with support from the Bank of Italy.
In 1965-66, in his course on “Advanced Economic Theory”, Samuelson described Sraffa’s work with the greatest respect and linked it to the great school of thought beginning with Quesnay’s Tableau économique and continuing, three centuries later, with Leontief’s input-output tables and linear programming.