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This is a newly annotated edition of the classic first published in German in 1922. It is the definitive refutation of nearly every type of socialism ever devised. Mises presents a wide-ranging analysis of society, comparing the results of socialist planning with those of free-market capitalism in all areas of life.
Friedrich Hayek's foreword comments on the continuing relevance of this great work: "Most readers today will find that Socialism has more immediate application to contemporary events than it had when it first appeared."
This work stunned the Socialist world when it was first published in 1922. Mises offers a profoundly important work which discusses every major aspect of Socialism and has influenced scores of people all over the world. 8 cassettes.
Anonymous
Posted September 30, 2005
This book is the definitive work on why socialism, has not, can not, and will not work. To summarize it in a sentance would be impossible, but the best that one can hope to say is that it proves, once and for all, that socialisms inability to produce economic calculations is its achille's heel. For anyone interested in knowing the truth about why socialist regimes have always produced such wanton destruction, misery, and poverty, this is the book to read.
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Overview
More than thirty years ago F. A. Hayek said of Socialism: "It was a work on political economy in the tradition of the great moral philosophers, a Montesquieu or Adam Smith, containing both acute knowledge and profound wisdom.... To none of us young men who read the book when it appeared was the world ever the same again."This is a newly annotated edition of the classic first published in German in 1922. It is the definitive refutation of nearly every type of socialism ever devised. Mises presents a wide-ranging analysis of society, comparing the results of socialist planning with those of free-market capitalism in all areas of life.
Friedrich Hayek's ...