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Calculation and Coordination
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Essays on Socialism and Transitional Political Economy
Calculation and Coordination
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Calculation and Coordination book
Essays on Socialism and Transitional Political Economy
ByPeter J Boettke
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2000
eBook Published 23 November 2000
Pub. Location London
Imprint Routledge
Pages 368
eBook ISBN 9780429232671
Subjects Development Studies, Environment, Social Work, Urban Studies, Economics, Finance, Business & Industry
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Boettke, P.J. (2000). Calculation and Coordination: Essays on Socialism and Transitional Political Economy (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203469682
ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 1|6 pages
Introduction
chapter 2|22 pages
Why are there no Austrian Socialists? Ideology, science, and the Austrian school
Ideology, science, and the Austrian school*
chapter 3|18 pages
Economic calculation: the Austrian contribution to political economy
The Austrian contribution to political economy*
chapter 4|19 pages
Hayek’s The Road to Serfdom revisited: government failure in the argument against Socialism
Government failure in the argument against Socialism*
chapter 5|11 pages
Coase, Communism, and the “Black Box” of Soviet-type economies*
chapter 6|28 pages
The Soviet experiment with Pure Communism*
chapter 7|35 pages
The political economy of utopia: Communism in Soviet Russia, 1918–21
Communism in Soviet Russia, 1918–21*
chapter 8|14 pages
Soviet venality: a rent-seeking model of the Communist state
A rent-seeking model of the Communist state*
chapter 9|22 pages
Credibility, commitment, and Soviet economic reform*
chapter 10|15 pages
Perestroika and public choice: the economics of autocratic succession in a rent-seeking society
The economics of autocratic succession in a rent-seeking society*
chapter 11|22 pages
The reform trap in economics and politics in the former Communist economies*
chapter 12|11 pages
Promises made and promises broken in the Russian transition*
chapter 13|10 pages
The Russian crisis: perils and prospects for post-Soviet transition
Perils and prospects for post-Soviet transition*
chapter 14|14 pages
The political infrastructure of economic development*
chapter 15|18 pages
Why culture matters: economics, politics, and the imprint of history
Economics, politics, and the imprint of history*