----------------- HES POSTING ----------------- Though this information risks to be useful to Italian subscribers only, who, however, seem to be a significant subset, the most complete discussion of the issue and relevant literature is by Giacomo Becattini, Il concetto di industria e la teoria del valore, Torino, Boringhieri 1962. It develops themes raised by Andrews's 1951 paper in Oxford Studies in the Price Mechanism, which is also relevant to understanding the Marshallian tradition. Tiziano Raffaelli ------------ FOOTER TO HES POSTING ------------ For information, send the message "info HES" to [log in to unmask]