Communist Planning Versus Rationality - Mathematical Economics and the Central Plan in Eastern Europe and

Informationen zum Autor Edited by János Matyas Kovács - Contributions by Roumen Avramov; Andrei Belykh; Maciej Bukowski; Valentin Cojanu; Kaloyan Ganev; Julius Horvath; Gergely Kohegyi; János Matyas Kovács; Xiuli Liu; Udo Ludwig; Wojciech Maciejewski; Joze Mencinger; Stefan Petr Klappentext This volume examines failed attempts at modernizing the communist economy by means of optimal planning. It traces the rise and fall of the concept in Eastern Europe and China, explaining why the mission of optimization was doomed to fail and why it may nevertheless be relaunched today. Zusammenfassung This volume examines failed attempts at modernizing the communist economy by means of optimal planning. It traces the rise and fall of the concept in Eastern Europe and China, explaining why the mission of optimization was doomed to fail and why it may nevertheless be relaunched today. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Another "Grand Illusion" - Optimizing the Central Plan Chapter One: To Command or to Understand? Planning Concepts and Economic Research in Communist Bulgaria Chapter Two: Quantitative Economics in China. From Planned Economy to Socialist Market Economy Chapter Three: Mathematical Economics and Central Planning. Economic Research in Czechoslovakia under Communism Chapter Four: Theory and Political Economy of Central Planning in East Germany Chapter Five: Mathematical Economics outside the Neoclassical Paradigm? Evolution of Planning Concepts in Hungary under Communism Chapter 6: Between Rationality and Reality. Economics and Central Planning in Poland (1945-1989) Chapter Seven: The Failure of Communist Planning: A Perspective from Romania Chapter Eight: Communism = Soviet Power + Planning. Planning and Mathematical Economics in the Soviet Union Chapter Nine: Mathematical Economics, Economic Modeling, and Planning in Yugoslavia Conclusion: Rationality Found and Lost? In Search of a New Historical Narrative of Optimal Planning ...

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• Authors: Janos Matyas Kovacs
• Assisted by: Janos Matyas Kovacs (Editor), János Matyas Kovács (Editor)
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2022
• EAN: 9781793631770
• ISBN: 978-1-79363-177-0
• No. of pages: 424
• Series: Revisiting Communism: Collectivist Economic and Political Thought in Historical Perspective
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); Social sciences, law, business > Business > Economics; China, Eastern Europe, Economics, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / General, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Far-left political ideologies and movements, General and world history, Socialism & left-of-centre democratic ideologies, Left-of-centre democratic ideologies, Marxism & Communism, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / General