Ferrara had to defend himself from the charge of having plagiarized Carey
(whom he actually met in Turin).
RFaucci
> I am not sure whether Carey took the idea of reproduction costs from
> Ferrara or vice versa.
>
> Hadley would not be inclined to deal with reproduction costs as such, but
> reproduction costs are implicit within his work. I deal with this in a
> book, Railroading Economics. Hadley saw railroads as something like
> natural monopolies which could not sustain competition, under which prices
> would decline toward marginal costs. His solution, along with the other
> German-trained economists, who founded the American Economic Association,
> was convinced that another kind of price formation would be necessary.
>
>
> On Sun, May 4, 2014 at 3:20 AM, Scott Cullen <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> Nicola,
>>
>> Corporations was published in 1905 (so posthumously). There is a 2005
>> reprint available as an e-book.
>>
>>
>> https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=53dvGQJL0A0C&rdid=book-53dvGQJL0A0C&rdot=1&source=gbs_vpt_read&pcampaignid=books_booksearch_viewport
>>
>> Searching the preview does not find "reproduction" but not sure if that
>> was a full text search.
>>
>> The book jacket notes that Davis was an economist and a lawyer. AM 1885
>> and PhD 1894 Univerity of Michigan. Admitted to the bar in 1888.
>> Practiced
>> law in Omaha, Nebraska and later in Idaho.
>>
>> Scott Cullen
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> *From:* Nicola Giocoli <[log in to unmask]>
>> *To:* [log in to unmask]
>> *Sent:* Thursday, May 01, 2014 11:18 AM
>> *Subject:* [SHOE] R: [SHOE] QUERY: reproduction cost principle during
>> Gilded Age
>>
>> I wonder whether anyone in the List knows something about this John P.
>> Davis. The mentioned paper contains no information; other JSTOR works of
>> him just indicate that he came from Brooklyn, NY; from his book
>> *Corporations*, available in the McMaster Archive, I learned that he had
>> a PhD and died very young in 1903. Any other information, especially
>> about
>> his education?
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks again,
>>
>> Nicola
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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