Calculation and Knowledge

Booms and busts are brewing in the real economy, but computers that can quickly solve math problems won’t tell you much about how business cycles w

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The article is a much needed and long overdue acknowledgement and appreciation of Rothbard’s contributions to the theory, including the calculation debate, and practice of socialism.

Tolerably efficient coordination of human effort is impossible without trade in productive assets (capital markets).  There is no demonstrated, superior alternative to Wall Street and the price system. 

In a recent article Robert P. Murphy (2006) uses Cantor's diagonal argument to prove that market socialism could not function, since it would be impossible for the Central Planning Board 

In light of the argument presented in the present paper, it is difficult to avoid the speculation that the main argument that Hayek either half accepted or regarded as exaggerated and one-sided

The Eastern European countries have been going through a transition phase since the liberalization of their economies with the collapse of communist regimes in the early 1990s.

Non-monetary calculation of the environmental effects of action runs into the same problems of in natural calculation and commonly owned means of production. 

This paper has attempted to bridge unresolved differences remaining from the Hayek and Mises “controversy,” which materialized in the early 1990s.

This paper documents and articulates Murray N. Rothbard’s contribution to our understanding of the theory and practice of socialism.