Alfred Marshall takes note of that "some, among whom Cournot himself," have thought of "the inward economies [...] evidently without seeing that their premises lead definitely to the end that, anything firm initially gets a decent beginning will acquire a syndication of the entire business of its exchange ...".[31] Marshall accepts that there are factors that limit this pattern toward restraining infrastructure, and specifically: the demise of the originator of the firm and the trouble that the replacements might have acquired his/her pioneering abilities