Maurice Potron is an important precursor of the study of linear models of production and, in particular, of input-output analysis. We show that, contrary to Abraham-Frois and Lendjel's interpretation which we consider as unfaithful to Potron's model, there is a clear connection between his...

An increase in the demand for agricultural goods leads to the use of more intensive cultivation methods. Though Ricardo sees no difficulties in the intensification process, their existence is revealed by the possible occurrence of multiple equilibria. A general theory of intensive rent is based...

We study the economic mechanism which sustains the substitution of a marginal method for another when demand increases, in the presence of scarce resources. In those Ricardian dynamics, it is shown that the outgoing method is determined by the quantity side of the problem, the incoming method by...

[eng] Labour and wage in Sraffa's work . Christian Bidard. Our purpose is to give particulars, to look for alternative assumptions and to propose generalizations of the analysis undertaken by Sraffa in his work " Production of Commodities by Means of Commodities". These developments bear on the...

[fre] Les équations (C) établissent des relations entre les élasticités de consommation et les importations de trois biens dans un cadre statique ; les équations (T) admettent au contraire l'existence du progrès technique, et reçoivent des inter­prétations économiques simples lorsque...