Relaxing benevolence: public choice, socialist calculation, and planner self-interest
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Relaxing benevolence: public choice, socialist calculation, and planner self-interest
The Austrian calculation argument suggests that inability to engage in economic calculation worsened outcomes in socialist states. We suggest that this is hardly the case. When Austrian assumptions of benevolence are relaxed, inability to engage in economic calculation prevents the non-benevolent planner from fully extracting all available surplus from the citizenry. Consequently, when planners...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Review of Austrian Economics
سال: 2006
ISSN: 0889-3047,1573-7128
DOI: 10.1007/s11138-006-6095-7