A planned-economy socialist shared the same seminar table as Mises and Schumpeter

Evidence

In 1919, the philosopher and socialist educator Otto Neurath, president of the Central Planning Office in the shortlived Bavarian Soviet Republic, advocated a centrally planned economy in which money would be abolished and exchange would be made in kind. Before the war, Neurath had been a participant in the seminar led by Austrian economist Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk, along with Joseph Schumpeter, Otto Bauer, Emil Lederer, and Ludwig von Mises, who remembered him, in his words, for the “nonsense” he presented with “fanatical fervor.” — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 57

Categorization

• SEED: The Bohm-Bawerk seminar where Neurath, Mises, Schumpeter and socialists Bauer and Lederer all sat together is a vivid tableau for an essay on how intellectual rivals co-produced one another.
• XREF: connects to: Austrian business-cycle theory has a submerged US history dating to the 1920s via Schumpeter — Mark Blyth, Austerity: The History of a Dangerous…, 397; Mises’s price-based rebuttal of planning opened the Vienna planned-economy debate — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 58

Broader Connections

• Mises’s price-based rebuttal of planning opened the Vienna planned-economy debate #corroborates (0.85) — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 58