Politicised revisionism: comment on Lopes (2021)

Per Bylund, Christopher Lingle () and Mark Packard

Cambridge Journal of Economics, 2022, vol. 46, issue 3, 609-612

Abstract: We comment on a recent article by Lopes (2021), whose argument regarding the writing of the history of the socialist calculation debate is unfortunately burdened by a misconception of both the substance and nature of the argument that ignited the debate. Bringing additional sources from this time to scholars’ attention, we show that there is much more to the Austrian interpretation than standard interpretations of the debate admit. In fact, our findings indicate that Lange’s famous response to Mises’s challenge constitutes a rebuttal of a straw man.

Keywords: Socialist economic calculation; History of economic thought; Oskar Lange; Ludwig von Mises; F. A. Hayek (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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