ABSTRACT

From The Economic Journal, vol. 89 (December 1979), pp. 781–8. This was reprinted as an ‘appended mathematical note’ to Meade’s paper, ‘Labour Co-operatives, Participation, and Value-Added Sharing’, in Alasdair Clayre (ed.), The Political Economy of Cooperation and Participation: A Third Sector (Oxford University Press, 1980), pp. 89–118.