essays on socialism and transitional political economy /
Peter J. Boettke.
New York :
Routledge,
2001.
1 online resource (xvi, 352 pages) :
illustrations
Foundations of the market economy
Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-337) and index.
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 ~Black 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.
Credibility, commitment, and Soviet economic reformPerestroika and public choice: the economics of autocratic succession in a rent-seeking society; The reform trap in economics and politics in the former Communist economies; Promises made and promises broken in the Russian transition; The Russian crisis: perils and prospects for post-Soviet transition; The political infrastructure of economic development; Why culture m.
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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.
Calculation and coordination.
Austrian school of economics.
Marxian economics.
Social choice.
Austrian school of economics.
Austrian school of economics.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS-- Development-- Business Development.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS-- Development-- Economic Development.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS-- Development-- General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS-- Government & Business.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS-- Structural Adjustment.
Economic policy.
Marxian economics.
Marxian economics.
POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Public Policy-- Economic Policy.