Re: Re: Market socialism -- summing up?

[Jim Devine]

At 04:59 PM 7/17/00 -0400, you wrote:
>A perpetual shortage of consumer goods (hence the rule of insecurity & 
>unpleasant surprises) obviously wouldn't do.  The disagreement is that I 
>think the Hayekian critique doesn't prove -- except by fiat of Hayek's 
>assumption that divinely perfect knowledge is necessary for successful 
>planning -- that planned economy can never make us enjoy freedom & 
>pleasure & abundance.

hey, I thought that Hayek assumed that _Devinely_ perfect knowledge is 
necessary for successful planning.

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