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I should first like to congratulate the organizers of this excellent Conference and express my appreciation of the project to honour my old friend Kenneth Arrow. I was flattered to be invited, as I have not published anything on the subject of increasing Retums and specialization, although I have published on economies of scale and imperfect competition.
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Marris, R. (1998). Increasing Retums, Constant Retums and Micro-Macro Economics. In: Arrow, K.J., Ng, YK., Yang, X. (eds) Increasing Returns and Economic Analysis. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-26255-7_12
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