“History offers ample evidence that what determines the average level of prices and wages is the amount of money in the economy and not the greediness of businessmen or of workers.”

Milton Friedman - Capitalism and Freedom, p. 135

Note to self: if this is true, then Sraffa was incorrect in taking the rate of profits rather than the wage rate (à la Ricardo) as exogenous. Besides this, however (which was something of an arbitrary choice to begin with), this relation would not contravene Sraffa’s theory of prices, but would submit it to a different determination-in-the-last-instance (viz. quantity of money, though this may be further reducible). Optimally, this modification will serve to eliminate agency even further from Sraffa’s theory, allowing its extension into more immanent terrain.