Socialism (book)

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Socialism: An Economic and Sociological Analysis
First edition (German)
AuthorLudwig von Mises
Original titleDie Gemeinwirtschaft: Untersuchungen über den Sozialismus
TranslatorJ. Kahane
LanguageGerman
SubjectAnti-socialism
PublisherGustav Fischer Verlag [de], Liberty Fund, Ludwig von Mises Institute
Publication date
1922
Publication placeWeimar Germany
Published in English
1936
Pages596

Socialism: An Economic and Sociological Analysis is a book by Austrian School economist and classical liberal thinker[1] Ludwig von Mises, first published in German by Gustav Fischer Verlag [de] in Jena in 1922 under the title Die Gemeinwirtschaft: Untersuchungen über den Sozialismus.

Amongst other things, the book expanded Mises's views on the impossibility of economic calculation under socialism, which he had first developed in his influential 1920 article Economic Calculation in the Socialism Commonwealth.[1] Murray Rothbard argued that Socialism was amongst the four most significant works of Mises's career, alongside The Theory of Money and Credit (1912), Human Action (1949), and Theory and History (1957).[2]

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The book was first translated into English from the second reworked German edition (Jena: Gustav Fischer Verlag, 1932) by J. Kahane and published by Jonathan Cape in London in 1936. In 1951 the translation was reworked with the assistance of the author and published by Yale University Press in New Haven with the addition of an epilogue by Mises, originally published in 1947 as Planned Chaos by the Foundation for Economic Education (Irvington, NY).

Publication history

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In German

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  • Die Gemeinwirtschaft: Untersuchungen über den Sozialismus, Jena: Gustav Fischer Verlag, 1922.
  • Die Gemeinwirtschaft: Untersuchungen über den Sozialismus, Jena: Gustav Fischer Verlag, 1932.[3]
  • Die Gemeinwirtschaft: Untersuchungen über den Sozialismus, Auburn, AL: Ludwig von Mises Institute, 2007. (reprint of 2nd German edition)

In Swedish

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  • Kapitalism och socialism i de liberala idéernas belysning. Stockholm: Norstedt, 1930. OCLC 185635826

In English

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In Czech

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In Portuguese

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  • Socialismo: Uma Análise Econômica e Sociológica. Rio de Janeiro: Editora Konkin, 2022.

In Italian

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In Russian

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  • Sot︠s︡ializm: ėkonomicheskiĭ i sot︠s︡iologicheskiĭ analiz. Moskva: Obshchestvo "Catallaxy", 1994, 1999. ISBN 9785863660226 OCLC 51894803

In Turkish

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In Chinese

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  • 社会主义 : 经济与社会学的分析 / She hui zhu yi : Jing ji yu she hui xue de fen xi. 中国社会科学出版社, Beijing : Zhongguo she hui ke xue chu ban she, 2008. ISBN 9787500469261 OCLC 277257980

Reviews

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Notes

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  1. ^ Mises, Ludwig (2012). Die Wirtschaftsrechnung im sozialistischen Gemeinwesen [Economic Calculation in the Socialist Commonwealth]. Auburn, Alabama: Ludwig von Mises Institute. ISBN 978-1-61016-550-1.
  2. ^ Mises, Ludwig (2007). Theory and History. Auburn, Alabama: Ludwig von Mises Institute. pp. xi–xii. ISBN 978-1-933550-19-0.
  3. ^ Mises, Ludwig von (1932). Gemeinwirtschaft: Untersuchungen über den Sozialismus (2 ed.). Jena: Gustav Fischer – via Internet Archive.
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