Kowalik o Langem w nowym The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics

W pomnikowym drugim wydaniu The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics artykuł o Oskarze Lange napisał Tadeusz Kowalik (jeśli się nie mylę, to jedyny pracujący w kraju Polak w gronie ponad półtora tysiąca autorów tej SUMMY ECONOMICA). Kilka cytatów:
O Langem po 2. wojnie światowej:
„The evolution of Lange’s views of socialism in the post-war years is much harder to follow because he became so deeply involved in political activity. Not only the form but also the substance of his views was often influenced by tactical considerations and by the changing scope of freedom of expression accorded to scholars in social science.” (vol. 4, s. 873).
O Langego pracy pt. Zagadnienia ekonomii politycznej w świetle pracy J. Stalina „Ekonomiczne problemy socjalizmu w ZSRR” z 1953 r.
„The reasons for which Lange wrote that book, in which he extolled the Stalin work as ‘a momentous event in the history of science with far-reaching practical consequences’, are somewhat puzzling. He did it, probably, for two reasons. First, he was conviced that the Stalin work marked a turn from economic voluntarism towards respect for the inexorable laws governing economic life,towards a rehabilitation of efficiency and greater consideration of social needs. (...) The second reason (...) must have been his view of the evolution the Communist economies were undergoing due to industralization. He believed that not only the Stalinist terror but also the main body of practical devices applied then, as well as the functioning of the economy itself at that time, were all determined by political consideration, specifically by militarization and the forceful industralization bid (...). Lange often defined the centralistic command model as wartime economy. But he hoped that industrialization, with the subsequent emergence of an educated working class and socialist intelligentia creates a good social base for democracy and decentralization of management.” (vol. 4, s. 873).
O przemianach w Polsce po 1989 r.
„A wild form of capitalism emerged. Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher, Milton Friedman and F. A. Hayek became prophets. The works of Oskar Lange and (...) Michał Kalecki, were rejected, their followers marginalized. At least five Polish politically engaged historians accused Lange of being a secret agent for the Soviet Union during his stay in the USA, although 13 volumes of declassified FBI documents clearly contradict this slander.” (vol. 4, s. 874).