Peter J Boettke

Calculation and Coordination (eBook, ePUB)

Essays on Socialism and Transitional Political Economy

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This collection of essays from one of the major Austrian economists working in the world today brings together some of his key writings on a variety of economic issues.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. November 2000
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134557301
• Artikelnr.: 47887019

Autorenporträt

Peter 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.

Inhaltsangabe

List 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
Index