Calculation and Socialism

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Further reading:

Socialist Calculation Debate by Israel Kirzner (in The Encyclopedia of Libertarianism)

Economic Calculation in the Socialist Commonwealth by Ludwig von Mises

The Equations of Mathematical Economics and the Problem of Economic Calculation in a Socialist State by Ludwig von Mises

Collectivist Economic Planning edited by F. A. Hayek

Socialism, Economic Calculation and Entrepreneurship by Jesús Huerta de Soto

Economic Calculation in the Socialist Society by Trygve J.B. Hoff

Economic calculation and socialism by Krzysztof Turowski and Mateusz Machaj


Caplan's critique:

Is Socialism Really “Impossible”? by Bryan Caplan

Still Impossible After All These Years: Reply to Caplan by Peter J. Boettke & Peter T. Leeson

Calculation and Chaos: Reply to Caplan by David Gordon

Incentives vs. Knowledge: Reply to Caplan by Rodolfo A. Gonzalez & Edward Stringham

Toward a New Consensus on the Economics of Socialism: Rejoinder to My Critics by Bryan Caplan


Socialist calculation and modern computing:

Calculation, complexity and planning: the socialist calculation debate once again by Allin Cottrell W. Paul Cockshott

Von Mises, Kantorovich and in-natura calculation by W. Paul Cockshott

Central Planning's Computation Problem by Lucas Engelhardt

Critique of Engelhardt on planning by Allin Cottrell

Optimal Planning with Consumer Feedback: A Simulation of a Socialist Economy by Jan Philipp Dapprich

Revisiting the Computation Problem by Paul Cwik & Lucas Engelhardt

Machine v. Market: Economic Calculation and Business Organization in the Age of Modern Computing (Special Issue of the Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization)


Further resources on the economic calculation problem:

The Socialist Calculation Debate: Theory, History, and Contemporary Relevance by Peter Boettke, Rosolino A. Candela & Tegan Lindstrom Truitt

The Great Mises-Hayek Dehomogenization/Economic Calculation Debate compiled by Stephan Kinsella


Further resources on socialism:

Socialism: An Economic and Sociological Analysis by Ludwig von Mises

Dialectical Materialism by Ludwig von Mises (Chapter 7 in Theory and History)

Marxist Dreams and Soviet Realities by Ralph Raico (Chapter 4 in Great Wars and Great Leaders: A Libertarian Rebuttal)

Requiem for Marx edited by Yuri N. Maltsev

The Marxian System by Murray N. Rothbard (Chapters 12–13 in An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought, Volume II: Classical Economics)

Böhm-Bawerk’s Critique of the Exploitation Theory of Interest by Robert P. Murphy

Calculation and Coordination: Essays on Socialism and Transitional Political Economy by Peter J. Boettke

Between Immorality and Unfeasibility: The Market Socialist Predicament by David Ramsay Steele

The Socialist Tradition: Moses to Lenin by Alexander Gray

Alienation and the Soviet Economy: The Collapse of the Socialist Era by Paul Craig Roberts

The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repression by Stéphane Courtois, Nicolas Werth, Jean- Louis Panné, Andrzej Paczkowski, Karel Bartošek & Jean-Louis Margolin

The Harvest of Sorrow: Soviet Collectivization and the Terror-famine by Robert Conquest


See also:

A Critical Bibliography on Socialism

Anarcho-Communism by Murray N. Rothbard (Chapter 12 in Egalitarianism as a Revolt Against Nature, and Other Essays)