Calculation and Coordination : Essays on Socialism and Transitional Political Economy

ISBN-13: 9780415238137 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 368 str.

Peter J. Boettke

Opis

This work explores the founding, failure and attempts to reform and transform socialism in the 20th 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.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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.