As the discussion developped on language, the argument included in Galiani's quotation by Theocarakis went astray unsurprising. Actually, looking on the net for an English translation of this bit, I cannot find any but I was permanently driven back to the same presentation excerpted from the he Encyclopedia Britannica Eleventh Edition, (for example, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinando_Galiani).. The unfortunate Galiani is severely condemned for his book on the corn trade "He fell, however, into some of the most serious errors of the mercantilists". I cannot find any translation of the "Dialogue" on the Library of Congress catalogue (but I possibly overlooked that) .. It is a pity as the book is funnier than the innumerable defence of free trade by contemporary and subsequent writers. For the (happy ;-) ) few who can read French, only some excerpts are to be found on http://socserv2.socsci.mcmaster.ca/econ/ugcm/3ll3/galiani/index.html but the quotation by Theocarakis is not there but the whole text is downloadable at http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k88409r.item Alain Alcouffe