Wittgenstein Among the Econs: A First Approach

Abstract

This paper is a first start attempt at mapping cross-influences between Ludwig Wittgenstein and the Cambridge economists J. M. Keynes and Piero Sraffa. It is part of a wider research on the influences on and from Wittgenstein, Keynes and Sraffa along their carriers at the University of Cambridge, from 1930s onwards. To do so, this paper draws on biographies, correspondence and the literature on the philosophical thinking in these economists’ thought in order of pointing out the received of (at least in Sraffa’s case) transmitted to the Austrian philosopher.