Ebook: Calculation and coordination essays on socialism and transitional political economy

Annotation This collection of essays from one of the major Austrian economists working in the world today brings together in one place some of his key writings on a variety of economic issues.;Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of illustrations; Copyright acknowledgments; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Why are there no Austrian Socialists? Ideology, science, and the Austrian school; Economic calculation: the Austrian contribution to political economy; Hayek's The Road to Serfdom revisited: government failure in the argument against Socialism; Coase, Communism, and the B̃lack Box ̃of Soviet-type economies; The Soviet experiment with pure Communism; The political economy of utopia: Communism in Soviet Russia, 1918 21; Soviet venality: a rent-seeking model of the Communist state.