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!
For a historical perspective, there's a few sources. Yevenko's Planning in the Soviet Union is the best source for pre 1975 planning organisation, though it's more about the management and admin rather than the number crunching. It's also numbingly dry.
For the Math, Montias' famous 1959 paper "Planning with Material Balances in Soviet-Type Economies" is probably a good start, as is Kantorovich's (the Nobel Prize guy) book on the subject, which is different from his Linear Programming work.
Many thanks!