| | The Idea Shop: The Socialist Economic Calculation Debate and the Austrian Critique of Central Planning |
 | | Because the economic issues involved were scientific in nature, it is remarkable that the two sides were unable to reach any sort of mutual understanding during some twenty years of argument (Kirzner, 1988). |
 | | The central economic problem in the Austrian view is not how to allocate a fixed “pie” of resources among competing uses, but rather how to mobilize highly diffuse and incomplete knowledge in order to achieve economic coordination (Adaman & Devine, 1994). |
 | | The empirical failure of central economic planning in the late 1980s has led to a recent rethinking of socialist economics, and a renewed interest in the apparently prescient arguments of the Austrians made in the SECD (Barkhan and Roemer, 1993). |
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