Enrico Barone's famous article on economic planning, "Il Ministro della Produzione nello Stato Collettivista" ("The Ministry of Production in the Collectivist State"), which showed the theoretical possibility of an economically efficient collectivist planned economy, was published in Giornale...

Enrico Barone's famous article on economic planning, 'Il Ministro della Produzione nello Stato Collettivista' ('The Ministry of Production in the Collectivist State'), which showed the theoretical possibility of an economically efficient collectivist planned economy, was published in <italic>Giornale...</italic>

The Italian economist Enrico Barone (1859- 1924) is best known for his contributions to marginal productivity theory and the socialist planning debate. This paper analyzes Barone’s contributions to the theory of perfect competition which are largely ignored in the secondary literature. It...