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Record Nr.

UNINA9910779932103321

Autore

Boettke Peter J.

Titolo

Calculation and coordination : essays on socialism and transitional political economy / / Peter J. Boettke

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2001

ISBN

1-134-55730-2

1-134-55731-0

0-429-23267-5

1-280-40419-1

0-203-46968-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (369 p.)

Collana

Foundations of the market economy

Disciplina

338.947

Soggetti

Marxian economics

Austrian school of economics

Social choice

Soviet Union Economic policy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [285]-337) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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.