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Donald Charles Don Lavoie (April 4 1951 – November 6 2001) was an Austrian school economist. He worked at the Cato Institute. He wrote two books on the problem of economic calculation. His first book on this subject was Rivalry and Central Planning (Cambridge University Press 1985). This book stressed the importance of the process of competitive rivalry in markets. His second book was National Economic Planning: What Is Left? (Cambridge Massachusetts: Ballinger Publishing Company 1985).