EDITORIAL COMMITTEE FOR THE PUBLICATION OF THE CONFERENCE 
SRAFFA'S '’PRODUCTION OF COMMODITIES BY MEANS OF COMMODITIES 
AFTER TWENTY-FIVE YEARS 
Krishna B ha rad waj 
Bertram Schefold 
Prof. K. Bharadwaj 
TRINITY COLLEGE * 
Cambridge CB2 1TQ 
Herrn 
Professor Dr. Josef Steindl 
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Prof. B. Schefold 
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Frankfurt, 04.03.1 986 
Lieber, sehr verehrter Herr Steindl! 
Dear Josef, 
Thank you for your letter of 25 February 1986. I should feel very 
sorry, if my suggestion had annoyed you. I thought that my ques 
tion was obvious, given that I had proposed Heinz Kurz to colla 
borate with you in the revision of your paper (analogous sugges 
tions have been made or other refereeing processes are under way 
for almost all other papers): Heinz Kurz has submitted an exten 
sive comment on your paper which partly expresses disagreement 
and partly points out a number of alleged formal inconsistencies. 
Surely you will agree with me that it would be very desirable 
to eliminate the latter (if there are any) so as to bring the former 
clearly into focus. While I found your basic idea original and 
interesting, I can only state that as a reader I was left in a 
state of confusion after having read both the paper and the com 
ment . 
Of course, I could have worked out my own view as to where the 
truth lies - and I shall most certainly do so if you too cannot 
agree better on what you disagree - but to work through the argu 
ment bit by bit takes time and Krishna Bharadwaj and I cannot 
referee all the papers presented at the conference without help. 
*Until 14 July 1986. (After 15 July 1986: 4 New Campus, Jawaharlal 
Nehru University, New Delhi 67, India 110067)