Addendum to Carter’s “Response to Professor Solow”

In the debate between Scott Carter (2014a, 2014b) and Solow (2014), I was a bit disappointed about Scott’s Response to Solow’s comments. He did not try to challenge Solow’s reading of Sraffa (he just said that he “fundamentally disagrees” about the fact that Value or exploitation play a role into the definition of prices, but without referring to what Sraffa would have answered, Carter, 2014b, p. 72), whereas I think at least three misreadings must be highlighted. This chapter tries to challenge Solow’s vision on these three points. Carter also underline in his Response that he may have tried to “equate Sraffa with Marx” (Carter, 2014b, p. 70). I argue that Professor Solow’s misreadings originate from the same kind of approach, in his case trying to equate Sraffa with neoclassical theory.