National Economic Planning : What Is Left?

Can a 'radical free-market' economy help to end poverty and militarism while avoiding the quagmire of central planning? Don Lavoie makes a ... case that it can in National Economic Planning: What Is Left? Avoiding the conventional pitfalls of the Right and the Left, Lavoie argues that national economic planning fails to solve the basic problem of coordinating knowledge in society. He shows how decentralized markets solve this problem, while planning can do nothing but disrupt social and economic coordination. Constantly sensitive to the social concerns that have inspired 'radicals' from Thomas Jefferson to Karl Marx, Lavoie demonstrates why the traditional policies of the Left have failed and what alternative policies can produce progressive social change in a prosperous and growing economy. This book challenges radicals--and their critics--to begin reformulating their whole conception of progressive economic change.--Cover.

• | Author: Don Lavoie, Christopher J. Coyne
• | Publisher: Mercatus Center At George Mason University
• | Publication Date: Aug 05, 2016
• | Number of Pages: 322 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1942951264
• | ISBN-13: 9781942951261