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Lange, Oskar Ryszard (1904–1965)

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Oskar Lange was worldly known economist, socialist thinker and politician. His special position in economics rested on his profound knowledge of its main currents, of both Marxist economics and Western academic economics (above all the neoclassical) and later of both capitalist and centrally planned eastern European economies. With Abba P. Lerner he was one of the founders of the theory of market socialism. This induced him to make several attempts at a ‘major synthesis’ and to undertake political actions aiming for a rapprochement between the West and the Communist world, for peaceful coexistence, economic cooperation and systemic convergence.

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Kowalik, T. (2018). Lange, Oskar Ryszard (1904–1965). In: The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95189-5_1173

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