Monday, April 14, 2025

Recent Work On The Economic Calculation Problem

This post is mostly a bibliography. I know that Ludwig Von Mises' argument that socialist central planning will not work is invalid.

Many have put forth plans for post-capitalist societies. W. Paul Cockshott and Allin Cottrell's Towards a New Socialism is interesting in that they consider issues of computational complexity. I also once read some work of their colleagues Greg Michaelson and Ian Wright.

Apparently, a flurry of recent research investigates whether or not improvements in computing technology refute the Austrian argument against central planning. I have read hardly anything in the following list:

2 comments:

sturai said...

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sturai said...

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