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Calculation and coordination : essays on socialism and transitional political economy / Peter J. Boettke.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Boettke, Peter J.
- Series:
- Foundations of the market economy series.
- Foundations of the market economy
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Marxian economics.
- Austrian school of economics.
- Social choice.
- Soviet Union--Economic policy.
- Soviet Union.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (369 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Routledge, 2001.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This collection of essays from one of the major Austrian economists working in the world today brings together in one place some of his key writings on a variety of economic issues.
- Contents:
- Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of illustrations; Copyright acknowledgments; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Why are there no Austrian Socialists? Ideology, science, and the Austrian school; Economic calculation: the Austrian contribution to political economy; Hayek's The Road to Serfdom revisited: government failure in the argument against Socialism; Coase, Communism, and the ~Black Box~ of Soviet-type economies; The Soviet experiment with pure Communism; The political economy of utopia: Communism in Soviet Russia, 1918 21; Soviet venality: a rent-seeking model of the Communist state
- Credibility, commitment, and Soviet economic reformPerestroika and public choice: the economics of autocratic succession in a rent-seeking society; The reform trap in economics and politics in the former Communist economies; Promises made and promises broken in the Russian transition; The Russian crisis: perils and prospects for post-Soviet transition; The political infrastructure of economic development; Why culture matters: economics, politics, and the imprint of history; Concluding remarks; Economic freedom and wealth; Economic wealth and welfare; Notes; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [285]-337) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-134-55730-2
- 1-134-55731-0
- 0-429-23267-5
- 1-280-40419-1
- 0-203-46968-2
- 9780429232671
- OCLC:
- 437078739
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