Socialism and War

Essays, Documents, Reviews

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Autor(en)	Friedrich August von Hayek	Verlag	Liberty Fund, Inc.
Herausgeber	Bruce J. Caldwell
Sachgebiet(e)	English Books, Österreichische Schule	ISBN	978-0-86597-743-3
2009, 280 Seiten

Editorial foreword by Stephen Kresge, introduction by Bruce Caldwell, editor's acknowledgements by Bruce Caldwell, name index, subject index.

In the essays in this volume Hayek contributed to economic knowledge in the context of socialism and war, while providing an intellectual defense of a free society. The connection between the two topics is illuminated through essays containing some of Hayek's contributions to the socialist-calculation debate, writings pertaining to war, and the cult of scientific economic planning from the late 1930s and 1940s.

Source: Liberty Fund, Inc.

Throughout the twentieth century, socialism and war have been intimately connected. The unprecedented upheavals wrought by the two world wars and the Great Depression provided both opportunity and impetus for a variety of socialist experiments.

In interwar Britain nearly all of the intelligentsia embraced some variant of socialism, which was viewed as providing a benign "middle way" between totalitarianism on the one hand and a (failed) unfettered market system on the otherr. It was in this millieu that F. A. Hayek began his lifelong, often lonely, battle against socialist thought.

This new volume in The Collected Works of F. A. Hayek documents the evolution of Hayek's thought on socialism and war during the dark decades of the 1930s and 1940s. Opening with Hayek's arguments against market socialism, the volume continues with his writings on the economics of war, many in response to the proposals made in John Maynard Keynes's famous pamphlet How to Pay for the War. The last section presents articles that anticipated The Road to Serfdom, Hayek's classic meditation on the dangers of collectivism. An appendix contains a number of topical book reviews written by Hayek during his crucial period, and a masterful introduction by the volume editor, Bruce Caldwell, sets Hayek's work in context.

Socialism and War will interest not just readers of The Road to Serfdom but anyone concerned with the ongoing debates over the propriety of government intervention in the economy.

Source: back cover text

Table of Content:

Editorial Foreword
Introduction
 
PART I. Market Socialism and the Socialist Calculation Debate
 
1. The Nature and History of the Problem
Addendum:  Review of Planwirtschaft und Verkehrswirtschaft
Foreword to Brutzkus, Economic Planning in Soviet Russia

2. The Present State of the Debate 

3. Socialist Calculation:  The Competitive Solution

4. The Economics of Planning

PART II. The Economics and Politics of War

5. Pricing versus Rationing

6. The Economy of Capital

7. Documents Relating to the War

PART III. Planning, Freedom, and the Politics of Socialism

8. Freedom and the Economic System

9. Freedom and the Economic System [1939]

10. Planning, Science, and Freedom

11. The Intellectuals and Socialism

Appendix 
Hayek's Reviews of the Literature

Editor's Acknowledgements
Name Index
Subject Index