- 50
- Episodes
- 26
- Transcribed
- 56
- Ratings
- Weekly
- Cadence
- 2025
- First episode
About KPFA - Behind the News
Host Doug Henwood covers the worlds of economics and politics and their complex interactions, from the local to the global.
- Publisher
- KPFA
- Category
- news
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- Yes
- First episode
- 6 Nov 2025
- Latest episode
- 22 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
26 of 50 episodes have a transcript.
22 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
What a socialist economy might look like
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What a socialist economy might look like
Published 22 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] A central authority would devise a long-term plan for the economy and allocate resources in great detail to make it reality. Socialist enterprises were to regard the plan as the law. Hayek's critique centered on the knowledge problem. No planning system could know all the details of what went on at the level of specific industrial sectors or plants, and they could not anticipate what sort of products people would want, a set of preferences that changes over time. Decentralized markets, asserted Hayek, with freely moving prices, were the only way to solve these information and coordination problems. […]
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