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 First edition (German) | |
| 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 [de],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 byAustrian School economist andclassical liberal thinker[1]Ludwig von Mises, first published in German byGustav Fischer Verlag [de] inJena in 1922 under the titleDie 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 articleEconomic Calculation in the Socialism Commonwealth.[1]Murray Rothbard argued thatSocialism was amongst the four most significant works of Mises's career, alongsideThe Theory of Money and Credit (1912),Human Action (1949), andTheory 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 byJonathan Cape inLondon in 1936. In 1951 the translation was reworked with the assistance of the author and published byYale University Press inNew Haven with the addition of an epilogue by Mises, originally published in 1947 asPlanned Chaos by theFoundation for Economic Education (Irvington, NY).
