Socialism (book)


Socialism: An Economic and Sociological Analysis is a book by Austrian School economist and classical liberal thinker Ludwig von Mises, first published in German by 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. Murray Rothbard argued that Socialism was amongst the four most significant works of Mises's career, alongside The Theory of Money and Credit, Human Action, and Theory and History.

Translations

The book was first translated into English from the second reworked German edition 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.

Publication history

In German

Die Gemeinwirtschaft: Untersuchungen über den Sozialismus, Jena: Gustav Fischer Verlag, 1922.Die Gemeinwirtschaft: Untersuchungen über den Sozialismus, Jena: Gustav Fischer Verlag, 1932.Die Gemeinwirtschaft: Untersuchungen über den Sozialismus, Auburn, AL: Ludwig von Mises Institute, 2007.

In Swedish

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

In English

Socialism: An Economic and Sociological Analysis. London: Jonathan Cape, 1936 Socialism: An Economic and Sociological Analysis. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1951.Socialism: An Economic and Sociological Analysis. London: Jonathan Cape, 1969Socialism: An Economic and Sociological Analysis. Indianapolis, IN: Liberty Fund, 1981..Socialism: An Economic and Sociological Analysis. Auburn, AL: Ludwig von Mises Institute, 200x..

In Czech

Socialismus: ekonomická a sociologická analýza. Prague: Liberální institut, 2019,

In Portuguese

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

In Italian

Socialismo: analisi economica e sociologica. Milano: Rusconi, 1990.

In Russian

Sot︠s︡ializm: ėkonomicheskiĭ i sot︠s︡iologicheskiĭ analiz. Moskva: Obshchestvo "Catallaxy", 1994, 1999.

In Turkish

Sosyalizm: İktisadi ve sosyolojik bir tahlil. Ankara: Liberte Yayınları, 2007.

In Chinese

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