The Economic Calculation Debate
ABSTRACT
This conference explored one of the central debates of the twentieth century: the debate over economic calculation. This conference focused on the nature, reach, and implications of the arguments in support of the superiority of a market economy over a planned economy in that regard.
READING LIST
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Socialism
by
By Ludwig von Mises
Translated by J. Kahane
Foreword by F. A. Hayek
More than thirty years ago F. A. Hayek said of Socialism: “It was a work on political economy in the tradition of the great moral philosophers, a Montesquieu or Adam Smith, containing both acute knowledge and profound wisdom. . . . To none of us young men who read the…
Additional Readings
Hayek, F. A., eds. Collectivist Economic Planning. London: Routledge, 1935.
Dobb, M. “Economic Theory and the Problem of a Socialist Economy.” Economic Journal 43, no. 172 (1933): 588-598.
Frisch, R. “Circulation Planning: Proposal for a National Organization of a Commodity and Service Exchange.” Econometrica 2, no. 3 (1934): 259-261.
Hayek, F. A. “Economics and Knowledge.” Economica 4, no. 13 (1937): 33-54.
Lange, O. Economic Theory and Market Socialism. Aldershot: Edward Elgar, 1990.
Lange, Oskar. “On The Economic Theory of Socialism.” Review of Economic Studies (October 1936): 123-136.
Lerner A. “Economic Theory and Socialist Economy.” Review of Economic Studies 2, no. 1 (1934): 51-61.
Mises, Ludwig von. Human Action: A Treatise on Economics, Volume 3. Edited by Bettina Bien Greaves. Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, Inc., 2007.
Mises, Ludwig von. Economic Calculation in the Socialist Commonwealth. Auburn: Mises Institute, 1990.
Mises, Ludwig von. Human Action: A Treatise on Economics, Volume 1. Edited by Bettina Bien Greaves. Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2007.
Neurath, O. Economic Writings: Selections 1904-1945. Vienna: Springer, 1995.
Polanyi, K. “Socialist Accounting.” Theory and Society 45, no. 5 (2016): 398-421.
Polanyi, K. “The functionalist theory of society and the problem of socialist calculability - A rejoinder to Pr. L. Von Mises and Dr. Felix Weil.” Cahier Monnaie et Financement 2, no. 22 (1994): 115-126.
Taylor, F. “The Guidance of Production in a Socialist State.” American Economic Review XIX, no. 1 (1929): 1-8.