Before 1900
Return to Economic Calculation
Before Mises other authors had anticipated ether his or other writers later arguments, although usually in only a partial or unsystematic way.
Anti-Duhring — In this book Friedrich Engels asserts that 'regulating production according to need' in a communist society is easy & can be done with labour vouchers.
Natural Value — Friedrich von Weiser was determined to show that economic value would exist even in a communist state. In doing so however it is possible that he helped advance the idea of equivilance between socialism & capitalism, that would confuse later equilibrium theorists. He also sets out an early version of the knowledge problem.