bjp210

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   by bjp210 10y ago

   Precisely
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   by bjp210 10y ago

   Completely agreed. For anyone interested in the heyday of Soviet economics, please start with Spufford's fascinating and entertaining historical fiction! :)
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   by bjp210 10y ago

   Great lead. Glushkov's network ideas are definitely overlooked, but the parallel with the CDMA in weak. Perhaps a stronger parallel is with, say, Lashkaryov's p-n junction, which became an important innovation (semiconductor) but
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   by bjp210 10y ago

   That's right. The network project was the means Glushkov envisioned for realizing both economic optimization and a series of other technical upgrades, both wild (like mind uploading) and mundane (like paperless office). Yes, Kantorovic
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   by bjp210 10y ago

   Thanks! There's many. Here's a couple: liberal economic language gets the cold war wrong. Our policies are often at their best when we start by doubting inherited commitments to either markets or states. Mixed economies have long
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   by bjp210 10y ago

   Excellent! I know the 1970s RAND review and am delighted to learn about the Cowles commission material here.
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   by bjp210 10y ago

   Sevensor, I'd LOVE to read more about this. Is there more in your diss?
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   by bjp210 10y ago

   One more author rant before the thread vanishes, here are a couple points from the book. 1. The Soviet internet is a sideways allegory for the present. The Soviet Union, once we work through its parade of horribles, helps separate us from a
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   by bjp210 10y ago

   This is a reasonable instinct, although, as I argue in the book, it really only explains things after the 1975 KGB-advised decision to harness the Soviet IT industries to cloning western innovations. Before that decision, between 1959 and 1
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    by bjp210 10y ago

    Really interesting. "About what Russia is like" is the short story of this book, and there's huge room for more comparative work on the networks between these two giant socialist states without democracy on the Eurasian stepp
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    by bjp210 10y ago

    Thanks, catwell. Super helpful. Schafer's work comes highly recommended. I'll get to it! MIT Press put out an e-book version, and the soft cover comes out later this year. (A pdf is probably out there too...)
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    by bjp210 10y ago

    Head nodding Totalitarian regimes all around the world seem to be handling un-free networks just fine. So does the NSA. Networks do not necessarily embody our values. (Pardon the author rant!)
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    by bjp210 10y ago

    Thanks, pjc50, for the helpful reference. This is the author of the book here. Your instincts are sharp. As it happens, I deal with exactly your last argument in the book, so let me gently suggest that if in fact there were "no way&quo