Review of Austrian Economics
Author:
William Keizer
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slowing down and ultimate stagnation of the growth rates of the Soviet and Eastern European economies, their inability to provide their citizens with a high standard of Schäffle’s “social tax.” Schäffle had suggested that representatives of the trade unions and the consumers should periodically meet to set differentiated “taxes” and later again in the Stalinist epoch, being constructed in the Soviet Union. It was explicitly not aimed at syndicalism, guild socialism, or some sort of