Harpo Marx York accent his entire life. According to those who personally knew him, Harpo's voice was much deeper than Groucho's, but it also sounded very similar to Chico's. His son, Bill, recalled that in private Harpo had a very deep and mature soft-spoken voice, but that he was "not verbose" like the other Marx brothers; Harpo preferred listening and learning from others. Harpo's final public appearance came on January 19, 1963 with singer/comedian Allan Sherman. Sherman burst into tears when Harpo announced his retirement from the entertainment business. Comedian Steve Allen, who was in the audience, remembered that Harpo spoke for
Marx after Sraffa after Sraffa" as another critique of Marx's "Capital", and accused Steedman of misunderstandings of Marx similar to those made by Paul Sweezy in his "The Theory of Capitalist Development" (1942). Marx after Sraffa Marx after Sraffa is a 1977 book about Marxist economics by the economist Ian Steedman, in which the author argues against the labor theory of value. Steedman has been criticized for alleged misunderstandings of Karl Marx. The economist Heinz D. Kurz reviewed "Marx after Sraffa" in "Kyklos". The political scientist David McLellan wrote in the 1995 edition of his "" that Steedman's reading of Marx has been