Calculation and Knowledge
Chapter 7. The Ethical Justification of Capitalism and Why Socialism Is Morally Indefensible
Pages 151–172 in the text.
Even Socialists Know that Economic Planning Requires Market Prices
Hard-left "democratic socialists" think they figured out how to make government planning possible: use prices. But there's a problem in their argument: prices are impossible without markets.
Classical Economics vs. The Exploitation Theory
Not only is capitalism not a system of the exploitation of labor, but the real system of the exploitation of labor is socialism.
The Place of Economic Calculation in the Economic Theory of Ludwig von Mises
The marginalist revolution posed a fundamental problem for economic theory. Mises’s approach not only solved the problem of economizing resources in a division of labor, but provides a robust framework for economic research.