The calculation problem if you'll recall was specific to pricing. Lange's solution wasnt "lol build a robot" it was to point out that pricing in capitalism and socialism should occur in the same manner. By trial and error
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Capitalist price-discovery is based on a system of incentives (to notice and respond) that no imaginable socialist commonwealth can emulate.
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Realistic adjustments to complex systems require a selection mechanism as final criterion. Describing that as a "cop-out" doesn't make it any less unsurpassable.
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... Leftists want the results of selection without a selection mechanism (which was Mises' point).
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"You can't just legislate adequate selection mechanisms into existence." -- This is exactly the point.
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Replying to @Outsideness @RealEnverHoxha and
Right. So why would you think that profit maximization would somehow be an effective selection mechanism? Even if you think the market is some sort of transcendental entity, it's impossible to deny that humans were the ones who originally set out the basic rules.
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The reciprocal of profit maximization is liquidation.
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Differential elimination (i.e. selection) is not well captured by "crisis".
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