is meant by rational economic theory” (Neurath) and whether “socialism is the abolition of rational economy” (Mises …

models and Marxism. It argues that the two schools' shared Platonic influences render the more devout exponents of static …, perfectly competitive market models unable to contribute substantively to the defense of markets against advocates of socialism …

“Marxism,” wrote the American legal historian William E. Nelson in 1985, “is not about to disappear as an attractive … ideology or as a powerful political force in the world.” The prediction was not well timed. The Marxism of the socialist bloc … Afghanistan, had already turned the historical conjuncture decisively against Soviet and Eastern European socialism. Western …