[10] November 26 — SOVIET PLANNING AND THE DISMAL SCIENCE
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Assigned reading:
Leonid Vitalievich Kantorovich, "Mathematics in economics: Achievements, difficulties, and perspectives," Nobel Prize in Economics lecture (1975).Ivan Boldyrev and Olessia Kirtchik, "The cultures of mathematical economics in the postwar Soviet Union: More than a method, less than a discipline," Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 63 (2017): 1-10.
Artemy M. Kalinovsky, "Ayni's children, or making a Tajik-Soviet intelligentsia," Laboratory of Socialist Development: Cold War Politics and Decolonization in Soviet Tajikistan (2018), 43-66.Further resources:Till Düppe and Ivan Boldyrev, “Economic Knowledge in Socialism, 1945–89,” History of Political Economy 51, no. S1 (2019): 1–4.Kristy Ironside, A Full-Value Ruble: The Promise of Prosperity in the Postwar Soviet Union (2021).Yakov Feygin, “Dreaming of a ‘New Planning’: Development and the Internationalization of Economic Thought in Late Soviet Reformist Politics,” Humanity: An International Journal of Human Rights, Humanitarianism, and Development 12, no. 2 (2021): 159–83.Pekka Sutela, Economic Thought and Economic Reform in the Soviet Union (1991).Vincent Barnett, The Revolutionary Russian Economy, 1890-1940: Ideas, Debates and Alternatives (2004).Aron Katsenelinboigen, Soviet Economic Thought and Political Power in the USSR (1980).Jan Adam, Planning and Market in Soviet and East European Thought, 1960’s-1992 (1993).Image: "Miracles of planning" (Krokodil, 1958): "Hello! Tashkent! Didn't a bunch of reindeer harnesses show up at your end! We could send over some cotton harvesting combines." -