Communist Planning versus Rationality

Mathematical Economics and the Central Plan in Eastern Europe and China
Herausgeber: Kovács, János Matyas

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Revisiting Communism: Collectivist Economic and Political Thought in Historical Perspective
• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 426
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. April 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 841g
• ISBN-13: 9781793631770
• ISBN-10: 1793631778
• Artikelnr.: 63432403

Autorenporträt

János Mátyás Kovács is honorary professor at Eötvös Lorand University, senior member at Research Center for the History of Transformations (RECET) at University of Vienna, permanent fellow emeritus at Institute for Human Sciences, and visiting professor at Central European University.

Inhaltsangabe

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