Now that Forstater has introduced Scazzieri, let me recommend the latter's work on the questions Bateman raised, particularly A Theory of Production: Tasks, Processes, and Technical Practices (Oxford 1993); and before that, Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen, The Entropy Law and the Economic Process (Cambridge 1971), and before that Koopmans, Leontief, and Sraffa. John Womack