Rivalry and Central Planning
The Socialist Calculation Debate Reconsidered (Advanced Studies in Political Economy)
by Don Lavoie
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Rivalry and Central Planning, first published in 1985, is a vital contribution to the scholarly literature in contemporary comparative systems, the economics of socialism, and the Austrian school of economics. It disputes the commonly accepted view of both the nature of the ?socialist calculation debate? of the 1930s and the lessons to be derived f...
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