Istota sporu o racjonalność gospodarki socjalistycznej a idea centralnego planowania w ujęciu Hayeka
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Hayek’s position in the dispute over about rationality of the socialist economy is closely
related to his original view on the essence of the economic problem. Hayek underlines that
the general economic problem of each society consists not only in the choice of goals and
means of economic activity but also or primarily in the acquisition and transfer of detailed
knowledge of society’s resources and individuals' various objectives. In Hayek’s view, knowledge
o f this kind may be used only in the system of competition thanks to the price mechanism
and decentralization of decisions. That’s why the conclusive argument used by the author of
the Road to Serfdom in his criticism of central planning is the ecpistemiological argument. By
means of that argument Hayek shows also the utopian nature of the proposal for using the
mathematical method in managing the centralized socialist economy. Although it is hard to
accept the view that the market may be the only regulatory system in the complex contemporary
economic organisms it should be admitted that the direction of criticism of the centrally
planned economy presented by Hayek was right.
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