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OverviewCalculation and Coordination explores the founding, failure and attempts to reform and transform socialism in the twentieth century, with a focus on the Soviet experience. It combines the strengths of the Austrian market process tradition with the political economy of public choice to provide an analytical framework for theoretical and historical examination of socialist practice and post-socialist political economy. Peter J. Boettke places particular emphasis on the difficulties of economic calculation in the absence of secure private property rights and the importance of establishing a credible commitment to limited government for smoothing the path from Soviet socialism to a liberal political and economic order in Post-Soviet Russia. The volume features essays on: * The theoretical debate over socialism and in particular the contributions of Mises and Hayek on the matter * The origins of socialism in Russia * The institutionalist maturation of socialist practice and the de facto organising principles of the mature Soviet-type economy * The collapse and failure to successfully reform the Soviet system. This collection will prove to be of great interest to academics and students in the fields of economics, comparative politics and development studies. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Peter J Boettke (George Mason University, USA)Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Imprint: Routledge Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 23.40cm Weight: 0.635kg ISBN: 9780415238137ISBN 10: 0415238137 Pages: 368 Publication Date: 23 November 2000 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsList of illustrations, Copyright acknowledgments, Acknowledgments, 1 Introduction, 2 Why are there no Austrian Socialists? Ideology, science, and the Austrian school, 3 Economic calculation: the Austrian contribution to political economy, 4 Hayek’s The Road to Serfdom revisited: government failure in the argument against Socialism, 5 Coase, Communism, and the “Black Box” of Soviet-type economies, 6 The Soviet experiment with pure Communism, 7 The political economy of utopia: Communism in Soviet Russia, 1918–21, 8 Soviet venality: a rent-seeking model of the Communist state, 9 Credibility, commitment, and Soviet economic reform, 10 Perestroika and public choice: the economics of autocratic succession in a rent-seeking society, 11 The reform trap in economics and politics in the former Communist economies, 12 Promises made and promises broken in the Russian transition, 13 The Russian crisis: perils and prospects for post-Soviet transition, 14 The political infrastructure of economic development, 15 Why culture matters: economics, politics, and the imprint of history, 16 Concluding remarks, Appendix 1: Economic freedom and wealth, Appendix 2: Economic wealth and welfare, Notes, IndexReviewsAuthor InformationPeter J. Boettke is Associate Professor at George Mason University, where he also serves as the Deputy Director of the James M. Buchanan Center for Political Economy. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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