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Economic Calculation in the Socialist Commonwealth
Ludwig von Mises ISBN 0945466072
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Ludwig von Mises ISBN 0945466072
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This book by Ludwig von Mises came up once on Lex Fridman in the episodes we index. That mention was a genuine on-air recommendation, not just a passing reference. The people who brought it up: Travis Oliphant. Every occurrence below links to the episode page and to the exact second it was said on YouTube.
“he wrote a pre-order paper in 1920 that still should be read more than it is it's got i mean it was the economic calculation problem of the socialist commonwealth”— Travis Oliphant
The guest here is Travis Oliphant: Creator of NumPy and SciPy and co-founder of Anaconda, he built the array and scientific-computing libraries that underpin most of Python data science and machine learning. A former biomedical-engineering professor turned open-source entrepreneur, he now runs Quansite and OpenTeams. Travis Oliphant, creator of NumPy and SciPy, traces how he built the foundations of scientific Python and the economics of open source.
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