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  1. The Inefficiency of Some Efficiency Comparisons: A Reply to Nye.Edward Saraydar - 1990 - Economics and Philosophy 6 (1):153-155.
    John Nye feels that one of my two brief specific references to his work “leaves the impression that my work downplays the problems of individual differences in taste or social institutions by dismissing them out of hand”. Let me assure him that he is unduly alarmed, since virtually all readers will read into the passage that he quotes only what I intended and, indeed, what Nye himself intended - that if he or anyone else had found evidence that firm size (...)
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  • “The Conflation of Productivity and Efficiency in Economics and Economic History”: A Comment.John Vincent Nye - 1990 - Economics and Philosophy 6 (1):147-152.
    In a recent article, Edward Saraydar takes economists and economic historians to task for equating productivity and efficiency in comparative economic analysis. Although I found his thesis interesting, I was a bit surprised to see selected remarks from my article on firm size in nineteenth-century France used to frame his criticism of productivity comparisons as a means of making prescriptive statements. The passages selected may mislead the reader as to the nature of my arguments. Let me quote Saraydar on this: (...)
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  • The Conflation Of Productivity and Efficiency in Economics and Economic History.Harinder Singh & Roger Frantz - 1991 - Economics and Philosophy 7 (1):87-89.
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