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
