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Re: Re: Re: Re: summary of calculation debate

At 08:20 AM 7/24/00 -0300, you wrote: 
It would be a very instructive exercise to imagine the economy of,
say, the USA, operating for eighty years in the hostile environment
that the USSR had to operate in


it's interesting to note that in the periods during the 20th century when
the US felt only mildly encircled by hostile powers (i.e., World Wars I and
II), the US economy was converted to a planned one. Planned capitalism did
pretty well in terms of helping the US win WW II.

Jim Devine jdevine@xxxxxxx &  http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine


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