I have not made such claim. And I have been very careful not to make such an absurd claim. And I have explained to you several times already that I have not made such a claim.
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I did not make any claim about scientific knowledge. They can have all the scientists, Engineers, and books they want.
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The argument is not about once a society takes over… as you just put it. I have said many times. Once a society takes over, you can still resort to the prices of the preceding capitalistic era. I don’t know for how long so don’t ask me. They system will disintegrate the system of division of labor will completely break down.
Here is the argument again:
The argument I have made and the argument that I am quite sure Mises is making is that in the socialist commonwealth, assuming no capitalistic entity in its close proximity of space and time, there will be no money prices and therefore, no economic calculations. Such a commonwealth cannot develop an economy based on capital intensive and complex production methods. Such an economy cannot build ships and tractors and a modern pencil… “it is no economy at all” as Mises puts it. Of course, he’s not talking about small primitive barter economies.
Do you agree with the above or not? That is my argument and that is the calculation problem put forward by Mises.