نوع مقاله : پژوهشی
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دانشیار گروه اقتصاد، عضو هیئت علمی دانشگاه اصفهان،اصفهان،ایران
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عنوان مقاله English
نویسنده English
One of the most significant ideological and yet technical debates of the early twentieth century is the socialist calculation debate, which took place between Mises and Hayek as proponents of capitalism and socialists such as Lange. Our objective in this article is to examine the rise and fall of this debate by analyzing Hayek's most important work in this field, the book "Individualism and Economic Order". This discussion began with Mises, who claimed that a socialist economy and, consequently, economic planning were impossible. He reasoned that this impossibility stemmed from the inability of a planning system to calculate prices. This impossibility was interpreted by socialists like Lange as the impossibility of socialism due to the complexity of calculations or the absence of competition in a socialist system. However, Mises and later Austrian economists like Hayek argued that this impossibility was something beyond mere computational problems related to price calculation or the lack of competition. Although Hayek makes crucial points in explaining the miracle of the price mechanism and the market institution, he has overlooked important issues, and his theory has become an idealized one. While it is true that socialism is impossible due to the elimination of the market, the abstract capitalism envisioned by Hayek is also practically impossible for non-Western countries due to its abstract and ahistorical perspective.
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