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Cálculo y plan. balance de un debate a partir de las posibilidades técnicas actuales

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  • Maxi Nieto

    (Universidad Miguel Hernández. Elche,Alicante)

  • Juan F. Navarro

    (Universidad de Alicante)

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The criticism to the possibility of economic computation in Socialism has pointed two presumably insoluble problems: one of them related to the scale of the economy to be solved (this should be the the neoclassic economy school objection), and the other related to the availability of information (the Austrian economy school objection). This paper reviews these two objections from the point of view of the new technical developments of the last two decades in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence and Telecommunications, and claims that the computation of a complex economy involving millions of different products results to be feasible. The existence of market processes is not a necessary condition to generate the information that an means efficient assignment requires. The main conclusion of this article is that, nowadays, the technical development allows, by first time in History, a Socialist planning of the economy, inspired in Marx ideas.

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  • Maxi Nieto & Juan F. Navarro, 2019. "Cálculo y plan. balance de un debate a partir de las posibilidades técnicas actuales," Cuadernos de Economía - Spanish Journal of Economics and Finance, Asociación Cuadernos de Economía, vol. 42(119), pages 139-152, Mayo.
    • Handle: RePEc:cud:journl:v:42:y:2019:i:119:p:139-152
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    Keywords

    Economic calculation; Planning; Socialism;
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    JEL classification:

    • P21 - Political Economy and Comparative Economic Systems - - Socialist and Transition Economies - - - Planning, Coordination, and Reform

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