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In the essays in this volume Hayek contributed to economic knowledge in the context of socialism and war, while providing an intellectual defence of a free society. The connection between the two topics is illuminated through essays containing some of Hayek's contributions to the socialist-calculation debate, writings pertaining to war, and the cult of scientific economic planning from the late 1930s and 1940s.
Introduction
The Nature & History of the Problem
The Present State of the Debate
Socialist Calculation: The Competitive Solution
The Economics of Planning
Pricing versus Rationing
The Economy of Capital
Documents Relating to the War
Freedom & the Economic System
Freedom & the Economic System [1939]
Planning, Science, & Freedom
The Intellectuals & Socialism.
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In the essays in this volume Hayek contributed to economic knowledge in the context of socialism and war, while providing an intellectual defence of a free society. The connection between the two topics is illuminated through essays containing some of Hayek's contributions to the socialist-calculation debate, writings pertaining to war, and the cult of scientific economic planning from the late 1930s and 1940s.
