Journal of Libertarian Studies

Introduction: An Economic Critique of Socialism

The Journal of Libertarian Studies
Downloads

Collected together in this special issue of the Journal of Libertarian Studies is an apparently quite disparate group of articles on central economic planning, covering some theoretical disputes concerning it as well as some historical instances of attempts to put it into practice. These articles were written independently of one another, yet there runs throughout a single coherent theme: that the notion of planning an entire economy from the center is an utter sham both theoretically and practically.

Volume 5, Number 1 (1981)

CITE THIS ARTICLE

Lavoie, Don. “Introduction: An Economic Critique of Socialism.” Journal of Libertarian Studies 5, No.1 (1981): 1–5.

All Rights Reserved ©
What is the Mises Institute?

The Mises Institute is a non-profit organization that exists to promote teaching and research in the Austrian School of economics, individual freedom, honest history, and international peace, in the tradition of Ludwig von Mises and Murray N. Rothbard. 

Non-political, non-partisan, and non-PC, we advocate a radical shift in the intellectual climate, away from statism and toward a private property order. We believe that our foundational ideas are of permanent value, and oppose all efforts at compromise, sellout, and amalgamation of these ideas with fashionable political, cultural, and social doctrines inimical to their spirit.

Become a Member
Mises Institute