I recently read a critique of the planned/command economy of the USSR, that it was mostly influenced by arbitrary bureaucratic decision-making, and not by mathematical modelling. I'm struggling to find literature on the use of mathematics/system dynamics on economic planning in the USSR. Does anybody know of such literature? I'd like to actually study the math used, if any. It would be a fascinating project to model socialist economics mathematically. Obviously I'm referring to mathematics applied to the socialist mode of production, and not capitalist (market) economics. Thanks!

  • solaranus
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    1 year ago

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    • puff [comrade/them]
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      2 years ago

      Thanks, comrade. To add to this, Nikolai Voznesensky (a former Director of Gosplan) wrote a book called The economy of the USSR during World War II, which you can find on archive: https://archive.org/details/economyofthewuss0000niko

      Do you have a maths/sciences background? Does @shipwreck ? The three of us should publish an article on it.

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        • Multihedra [he/him]
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          2 years ago

          Looks like marxists.org has the pdf [direct link, took forever to load on my laptop]

          https://www.marxists.org/history/ussr/great-patriotic-war/pdf/economy.pdf