From Content: "Ludwig von Mises’s seminal essay, originally published in 1920 appears here in the 1990 edition published by the Ludwig von Mises Institute. This article appeared originally under the title “Die Wirtschaftsrechnung im sozialistischen Gemeinwesen” in the Archiv für Sozialwissenschaften, vol. 47 (1920). The present translation was first published in F.A. Hayek, ed., Collectivist Economic Planning (London: George Routledge & Sons, 1935; reprint, Clifton, N.J.: Augustus M. Kelley, 1975), pp. 87-130. Some annotations appear in this edition and they are set aside in brackets. “Economic Calculation in the Socialist Commonwealth” advances a devastating critique against economic calculation in a socialist economy, inspiring a decades-long debate. There are many socialists who have never come to grips in any way with the problems of economics, and who have made no attempt at all to form for themselves any clear conception of the conditions which determine the character of human society. There are others, who have probed deeply into the economic history of the past and present, and striven, on this basis, to construct a theory of economics of the “bourgeois” society. They have criticized freely enough the economic structure of “free” society, but have consistently neglected to apply to the economics of the disputed socialist state the same caustic acumen, which they have revealed elsewhere, not always with success. Economics, as such, figures all too sparsely in the glamorous pictures painted by the Utopians. They invariably explain how, in the cloud-cuckoo lands of their fancy, roast pigeons will in some way fly into the mouths of the comrades, but they omit to show how this miracle is to take place. Where they do in fact commence to be more explicit in the domain of economics, they soon find themselves at a loss--one remembers, for instance, Proudhon’s fantastic dreams of an “exchange bank”--so that it is not difficult to point out their logical fallacies. When Marxism solemnly forbids its adherents to concern themselves with economic problems beyond the expropriation of the expropriators, it adopts no new principle, since the Utopians throughout their descriptions have also neglected all economic considerations, and concentrated attention solely upon painting lurid pictures of existing conditions and glowing pictures of that golden age which is the natural consequence of the New Dispensation."
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Die Wirtschaftsrechnung im sozialistischen Gemeinwesen

Ludwig , 1881-1973 Von Mises

Mises, Ludwig von

United States, United States of America

Auburn, Ala, Alabama, 1990

1990-06-01

FR, 1990

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Includes bibliographical references.
Translation of: Die Wirtschaftsrechnung im sozialistischen Gemeinwesen.

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This is the essay that overthrew the socialist paradigm in economics, and provided the foundation for modern Austrian price theory. When it first appeared in 1920, Mises was alone in challenging the socialists to explain how their pricing system would actually work in practice. Mises proved that socialism could not work because it could not distinguish more or less valuable uses of social resources, and predicted the system would end in chaos. The result of his proof was the two-decade-long "socialist calculation" debate. This new edition contains an afterword by Joseph Salerno, who applies the calculation argument to contemporary problems like environmentalism and business regulation.

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