__NOTOC__ Socialism: An Economic and Sociological Analysis is a book by Austrian School economist and classical liberal thinkerhttps://oll.libertyfund.org/page/mises-on-the-foundations-of-classical-liberalism Ludwig von Mises, first published in German by in Jena in 1922 under the title Die Gemeinwirtschaft: Untersuchungen über den Sozialismus.
Amongst other things, the book expanded Mises's views on the impossibility of economic calculation under socialism, which he had first developed in his influential 1920 article Economic Calculation in the Socialism Commonwealth. Murray Rothbard argued that Socialism was amongst the four most significant works of Mises's career, alongside The Theory of Money and Credit (1912), Human Action (1949), and Theory and History (1957).
Translations The book was first translated into English from the second reworked German edition (Jena: Gustav Fischer Verlag, 1932) by J. Kahane and published by Jonathan Cape in London in 1936. In 1951 the translation was reworked with the assistance of the author and published by Yale University Press in New Haven with the addition of an epilogue by Mises, originally published in 1947 as Planned Chaos by the Foundation for Economic Education (Irvington, NY).
Publication history In German Die Gemeinwirtschaft: Untersuchungen über den Sozialismus, Jena: Gustav Fischer Verlag, 1922. Die Gemeinwirtschaft: Untersuchungen über den Sozialismus, Jena: Gustav Fischer Verlag, 1932. Die Gemeinwirtschaft: Untersuchungen über den Sozialismus, Auburn, AL: Ludwig von Mises Institute, 2007. (reprint of 2nd German edition)
In Swedish Kapitalism och socialism i de liberala idéernas belysning. Stockholm: Norstedt, 1930.
In English Socialism: An Economic and Sociological Analysis. London: Jonathan Cape, 1936 Socialism: An Economic and Sociological Analysis. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1951. Socialism: An Economic and Sociological Analysis. London: Jonathan Cape, 1969 Socialism: An Economic and Sociological Analysis. Indianapolis, IN: Liberty Fund, 1981. . Socialism: An Economic and Sociological Analysis. Auburn, AL: Ludwig von Mises Institute, 200x. .
In Czech Socialismus: ekonomická a sociologická analýza. Prague: Liberální institut, 2019,
In Portuguese Socialismo: Uma Análise Econômica e Sociológica. Rio de Janeiro: Editora Konkin, 2022.
In Italian Socialismo: analisi economica e sociologica. Milano: Rusconi, 1990.
In Russian Sot︠s︡ializm: ėkonomicheskiĭ i sot︠s︡iologicheskiĭ analiz. Moskva: Obshchestvo "Catallaxy", 1994, 1999.
In Turkish Sosyalizm: İktisadi ve sosyolojik bir tahlil. Ankara: Liberte Yayınları, 2007.
In Chinese 社会主义 : 经济与社会学的分析 / She hui zhu yi : Jing ji yu she hui xue de fen xi. 中国社会科学出版社, Beijing : Zhongguo she hui ke xue chu ban she, 2008.
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External links Full text versions of Socialism, 1951 edition: Full text in HTML
Full text version in Portuguese, 2022 edition: Full text in PDF