Bureaucracy

1.2. Economic Calculation

Bureaucracy by Ludwig von Mises
Ludwig von Mises

The impracticability of all schemes of socialism and central planning is to be seen in the impossibility of any kind of economic calculation under conditions in which there is no private ownership of the means of production and consequently no market prices for these factors.

From Chapter I: "Profit Management". Narrated by Millian Quinteros.