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Loading... Socialism: An Economic and Sociological Analysis (original 1922; edition 1981)by Ludwig von Mises, J. Kahane (Translator)
Work InformationSocialism: An Economic and Sociological Analysis by Ludwig Von Mises (1922)
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. This book is probably one of the most prescient analyses ever written in social philosophy. By analysing the basic character and prerequisites of economic calculation, the author explains why exclusively state-controlled economic production will never work. He thus effectively provided an explanation for the demise of communism 70 years before it finally happened (this book was first published in 1922). To some extent this book is clearly a product of its time, a polemical argument from a time of crisis. The author's portrait of socialism as absolute state control was no doubt more timely in an age of rising dictatorships than it is today. But on the other hand this is a book for the ages thanks to the author's philosophical capacity. Anyone who wants to think through the political problem of state control vs. private action (a problem which certainly extends beyond economics) would be well-advised to begin with this great book. The problems are more multifaceted today, but the arguments of a hundred years ago are in this case far more insightful than much of what is written nowadays. no reviews | add a review
More than thirty years ago F. A. Hayek said of Socialism: "It was a work on political economy in the tradition of the great moral philosophers, a Montesquieu or Adam Smith, containing both acute knowledge and profound wisdom. . . . To none of us young men who read the book when it appeared was the world ever the same again."This is a newly annotated edition of the classic first published in German in 1922. It is the definitive refutation of nearly every type of socialism ever devised. Mises presents a wide-ranging analysis of society, comparing the results of socialist planning with those of free-market capitalism in all areas of life. Friedrich Hayek's foreword comments on the continuing relevance of this great work: "Most readers today will find that Socialism has more immediate application to contemporary events than it had when it first appeared." No library descriptions found. |
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