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| Soviet Union: The Soviet Union, officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), was a single-party, communist state that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. It covered an area of 22.4 million square kilometers (8.7 million square miles), making it the largest country in the world by land area by a considerable margin. The USSR consisted of 15 constituent republics, which possessed substantial autonomy in all but foreign affairs, defense, and heavy industry. See also Communism, Socialism._____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. | |||
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Murray N. Rothbard on Soviet Union - Dictionary of Arguments
Rothbard III 958 Soviet union/socialism/Rothbard: (…) a socialist state, deprived of the real market and its determination of prices for producers' goods, cannot calculate and can therefore run a productive system only in chaotic fashion. >Calculation/Rothbard. The economics of socialism [is] a whole branch of economics of its own (…) suffice it to say that Mises' demonstration of the impossibility of economic calculation under socialism has never been successfully refuted.(1) >Socialism/Mises, >Socialism. 1. (…) John Jewkes, Ordeal by Planning (New York: Macmillan & Co., 1948). For application to Soviet practice, see Boris Brutzkus, Economic Planning in soviet Russia (London: Routledge, 1935) and such recent material as G.F. Ray, "Industrial Planning in Hungary," Scottish Journal of Political Economy, June, 1960; E. Stuart Kirby, "Economic Planning and Policy in Communist China," International Affairs, April, 1958; P.J.D. Wiles, "Changing Economic Thought in Poland," Oxford Economic Papers, June, 195 7; Alec Nove, "The Politics of Economic Rationality," social Research, Summer, 1958; and especially, Nove, "The Problem of 'Success Indicators' in Soviet Industry," Economica, February, 1958._____________Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition. |
Rothbard II Murray N. Rothbard Classical Economics. An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing. Cheltenham 1995 Rothbard III Murray N. Rothbard Man, Economy and State with Power and Market. Study Edition Auburn, Alabama 1962, 1970, 2009 Rothbard IV Murray N. Rothbard The Essential von Mises Auburn, Alabama 1988 Rothbard V Murray N. Rothbard Power and Market: Government and the Economy Kansas City 1977 |
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