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I read this book in contrast to Friedrich von Hayek's "The Road to Serfdom," which is a a manual for the type of classic liberalism/neoclasicalism that Stiglitz attacks. The following is my comparison of the two. In concluding Whither Socialism, Joseph E. Stiglitz states that "if I were to claim that socialism as an ideology can now officially be declared dead, I do not think it would be an exaggeration." This declaration is made after a lengthily and sustained attack on socialism in the form of market socialism and communism as described by models based on the central tenets of capitalism. Stiglitz's supposed frontal assault on socialism is in all actuality a flanking maneuver against capitalism. As Stiglitz is berating socialism from one side of his mouth he is suggesting a move away from liberal economics through greater governmental intervention on the other. The changes Stiglitz supports are of just the type warned against in Friedrich A. Hayek's The Road to Serfdom. Hayek notes that in theories like Stiglitz's "the question is no longer how we can make the best use of the spontaneous forces found in a free society. We have in effect undertaken to dispense with the

Who reads Whither Socialism? (Wicksell Lectures)?

Author

Joseph E. Stiglitz

Publisher

The MIT Press

Published

1996

Language

EN

ISBN

9780262193405

Category

philosophy

Subjects

Economics, Fiction, Business