1-Describe the potential role for markets in a socialist system. In your answer make sure to include a discussion of 
· a detailed summary of Mises description of the nature of economic calculation and possibility of rational economic calculation in a socialist economy. Could there be a rational calculation in a socialist economy according to Mises, why or why not? How is nationalizing companies is different than having a shareholder-manager conflict according to Mises?
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how Chinese reformers benefited from the socialist calculation debate. Weber pointed out to Oskar Langes challenge against Mises, how Chinese reformers adapted these ideas?
2- Duncan Foley discusses socialist system according to Marx. What do we talk about when we talk about socialism, according to Foley? In your answer make sure to include a discussion of
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Marxs vision in Critique of the Gotha Programme which claims there are two stages to the construction of communism, and the implications of his vision
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Contributions of the Karl Mengers Vienna Circle and the implications of these contributions for the top-down vision of socialism
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Socialism as a self-organized or bottom-up system, and three main properties of a socialist system