Calculation and Coordination

Essays on Socialism and Transitional Political Economy

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Autor(en)	Peter J. Boettke	Verlag	Routledge
Sachgebiet(e)	Österreichische Schule, English Books	ISBN	978-0-415-77109-2
2006, 368 Seiten, Broschur

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:

• 1: Why no Austrian socialists?
• 1A Appendix: Is economics a moral science?
• Part I - The Theoretical Framework
  • 2: Economic calculation: The Austrian contribution to political economy
  • 3: Hayek's The Road to Serfdom revisited: Government failure in the argument against socialism
  • 4: Coase, communism and inside the 'Black Box' of soviet-type economies
• Part II - History and practice of real existing socialism
  • 5: The soviet experience with pure communism
  • 5A Appendix: The Soviet experience with pure communism: Rejoinder to Nove
  • 6: The political economy of Utopia: Communism in Soviet Russia, 1918-1921
  • 7: Soviet venality: A rent-seeking model of the communist system
• Part III - Realism and Reform; 8: Credibility, commitment and soviet economic reform
  • 9: Perestroika and public choice: The economics of autocratic succession in a rent-seeking society
  • 10: The reform trap in economics and politics in the former communist economies
  • 11: Promises made and promises broken in the Russian transition
  • 12: The Russian crisis: Perils and prospects for Post-soviet transition
  • 13: The political infrastructure of economic development
  • 13A Appendix: The argument applied to Post-Perestroika Russia
• Part IV - Political economy and the fate of economies
  • 14: Why culture matters: economics, politics and the imprint of history
  • 15: Concluding remarks
  • 15A Appendix A: Economic freedom and economic growth
  • 15B Appendix B: Economic growth and human well-being

Source: Routledge