I mentioned stuff about walmart and modern technology and somebody sent me a long wall text of how that wouldn't work because entire economies are too complex even for supercomputers.

now on tiktok anytime somebody says something remotely socialist they get spammed with "debunk the ECP"

  • Posad_al_Assad [any]
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    4 years ago

    Even the right-wing libertarian economist Bryan Caplan from the Koch Brother-funded econ department of George Mason University has admitted:

    current events do nothing to show that economic calculation was the insuperable difficulty of socialist economies. There is no natural experiment of a socialist economy that suffered solely from its lack of economic calculation. Thus, economic history as well as pure economic theory fails to establish that the economic calculation problem was a severe challenge for socialism.

    Computer scientist and Marxist economist Paul Cockshott and his Marxian economist colleague Allin Cottrell are a great resource for the economic calculation debate:

    • http://paulcockshott.co.uk/publication-archive/Talks/politicaleconomy/Computers%20and%20the%20economic%20calculation%20debate.pdf

    • http://ricardo.ecn.wfu.edu/~cottrell/socialism_book/

    • https://paulcockshott.wordpress.com/2017/01/31/real-problems-of-socialism-and-some-answers/

    • http://biblioteca.clacso.edu.ar/ar/libros/cuba/if/marx/documentos/22/Economic%20planning....pdf

    • http://ricardo.ecn.wfu.edu/~cottrell/socialism_book/calculation_debate.pdf

    • http://paulcockshott.co.uk/media/OnlineEconomicsPapers/standalonearticle.pdf

    • https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVBfIU1_zO-P_R9keEGdDHQ/videos