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Sevensor, I'd LOVE to read more about this. Is there more in your diss?
by bjp210 10y ago
Sevensor, I'd LOVE to read more about this. Is there more in your diss?
- sevensor 10y agoNot a whole lot. I mention it in passing. You can get the Rand corporation's 1970 Soviet Cybernetics Review here: http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_memoranda/RM6200z1.html http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_memoranda/RM6200z1.html It makes for fascinating reading. Edit: If you're interested in the late-40s zeitgeist in the US, Tjalling Koopmans' 1951 Charnes Commission report is available here: http://cowles.yale.edu/sites/default/files/files/pub/mon/m13-all.pdf http://cowles.yale.edu/sites/default/files/files/pub/mon/m13.... My apologies to Yale for hotlinking. Edit 2: That's Cowles commission, not Charnes commission. Charnes might have been at the meeting (I forget off the top of my head) but it wasn't his commission!
- bjp210 10y agoExcellent! I know the 1970s RAND review and am delighted to learn about the Cowles commission material here.
- Pamar 10y agoIn case you don't know it already, I heartily recommend "Red Plenty" by Francis Spufford. It has also a dedicated website (http://www.redplenty.com/Red_Plenty/Front_page.html http://www.redplenty.com/Red_Plenty/Front_page.html) so you can get an idea if this may be interesting for you.
- bjp210 10y agoCompletely agreed. For anyone interested in the heyday of Soviet economics, please start with Spufford's fascinating and entertaining historical fiction! :)