Apropos Bob's and my paper on human rights and economic liberalization, here's a great post by Alex Tabarrok on Salvador Allende's attempts to solve the problem of economic calculation in the socialist commonwealth with some technological wizardry. Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.

It's too soon, but within the next few decades I look forward to a complete and comprehensive intellectual history of the twentieth century. I expect that the two most important contributions will be Mises's "Economic Calculation in the Socialist Commonwealth" and Hayek's "The Use of Knowledge in Society."