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How would you explain to a lion his rights?
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Zinn, who has to have said something so that you appreciate it and not merely cast it away for being an appeal to authority? Let me make a brief correction of Marx's theory: In every country in which the capitalist mode of production reigns, it is the custom not to pay for labour-power before it has been exercised for the period fixed by the contract
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I think that suggestions like this are an intellectual insult to Mises' theory. Did you even take the time to think it through? And what is more interesting is that you wrote "I thought of another way to solve economic calculation in a socialist economy". Well let me correct you - you have only thought of an alleged way to solve the calculation
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I find it funny.
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I do not see this to be any argument at all. His proposition is not even explicit, but implied in the statistics of GDP. And GDP means nothing to economic theory.
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It is not much on the topic, but I feel inclined to post it here. http://www.mises.org.br/Article.aspx?id=953 You can use google translate for english translation.
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I suggest you read the daily article named "The Chimera of the Group Mind". http://mises.org/daily/4722
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I thought we agreed that 'economic' meant incorporating people's preferences/priorities. If a system doesn't DO that, it isn't economic, even if all the buildings and factories are doing the same thing. A socialistic system does not incorporate anything. It is rather characterised by assignment and give away. A central planner directs
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So if everyone's preferences are to some degree expressed in the market, and to some degree expressed in a command economy, why is a command economy "uneconomic"? I believe you have missed his point. Please review the first paragraph of my previous post.
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I watched one lecture and it was Hoppe's. It was excellent.