National economic planning. What is left?

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In National Economic Planning: What Is Left Don Lavoie argues that the radical Lefts enthusiasm for planning has been a tragic mistake and that progressive social change requires the abandonment of this traditional view. Lavoie argues that planning-whether Marxism, economic democracy, or industrial policy-can oniy disrupt social and economic coordination. Lavoie challenges both radicals and their critics to begin reformulating our whole notion ofprogressive economic change without reliance on central planning. National Economic Planning: What Is Left will challenge thinkers and policymakers of every political persuasion. "Don Lavoies book will serve a very important function. After morę than fifty years ofdiscussion in which the socialists at first just would not listen, their position has nów collapsed. Yet this long discussion was not without benefits. We have learnt much from this resistance to seeing the truth, and we shall also learn much from studying this systematic exposition of the present state of our knowledge of the problems." -F. A. Hayek, Nobel laureate "Lavoies contribution to our understanding of the epistemology of the market process of human interaction and social organization is welcome. Hę successfully demonstrates why we need to understand the theory of knowledge in order to explain why the knowledge system of the market works as it does-competitively and uncontrolled-and precludes being centrally planned. One does not have to agree with his approach to the philosophy of science to appreciate the light hę sheds on the argument that the greatły dispersed naturę of a societys stock of knowledge makes central economic planning impossible." -Anne Wortham, Kennedy School of Govemment Harvard University "Lavoies superb study develops an immensely powerful case for the irrationality ofnational economic planning. It is distinctive in showing that conventional ideas of economic planning depend upon conceptions of human knowledge that are philosophically untenable. It will be of great interest to economists, political scientists, philosophers, and all those concerned with current trends in public policy" -John Gray, Oxford University A wide-ranging interdisciplinary approach to the subject of knowledge and economic planning. .. Absorbing reading." -Jennifer Roback, Yale. University

Książka "National economic planning. What is left?" - Don Lavoie - oprawa miękka - Wydawnictwo Ballinger.