On Sat, 25 Jul 2009 12:08:53 -0400 Shane Mage <shmage at pipeline.com>
writes:
>
> On Jul 25, 2009, at 11:52 AM, mart wrote:
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> >
> > i googled 'communist hypothesis'. (it turns out this is the idea
>
> > that the free market is not the only way society can be
> organized...
>
> The great 19th-century Austrian economist Friedrich Von Wieser
> claimed
> that his free-market theory, based on marginal-utility value theory,
>
> described the economic theory of a *communist* society. In any
> event,
> one thing is perfectly clear--capitalism and the free market are
> completely irreconcilable.
And in the 20th century, the Polish economist Oskar Lange embraced both Marxism and neoclassical economics, maintaining that one needed Marx to understand the evolution and development of capitalism (and its subsequent replacement by socialism), while neoclassical economics was required for the rational administration of socialist economies.
Jim F.
>
> Shane Mage
>
> > This cosmos did none of gods or men make, but it
> > always was and is and shall be: an everlasting fire,
> > kindling in measures and going out in measures."
> >
> > Herakleitos of Ephesos
>
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