looks like a great contemporary read. Buckminster Fuller talked about the same thing in Cybernetics. He made the proposal that a feedback formula such as PID

looks like a great contemporary read. Buckminster Fuller talked about the same thing in Cybernetics. He made the proposal that a feedback formula such as PID would lead to utopia when applied to government... but as many note, the problem is less about distribution of quantifiable resources than managing conflicting values.