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| Author | Ludwig von Mises |
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| Original title | Die Gemeinwirtschaft: Untersuchungen über den Sozialismus |
| Translator | J. Kahane |
| Language | German |
| Subject | Anti-socialism |
| Publisher | Gustav Fischer Verlag, Liberty Fund, Ludwig von Mises Institute |
Publication date | 1922 |
| Publication place | Weimar Germany |
Published in English | 1936 |
| Pages | 596 |
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 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]
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).