[Marxism] Paul Cockshott on Leonid Kantorovich and the socialistcalculation debate

[Paddy Apling]

A truly absorbing paper - many thanks, Jim, for bringing this to our 
attention.

I have in the past used linear programme in dietary food formulation, and 
other food industry problems, and had never been brought to consider it in 
the (obvious) area of socialist and/or environmental planning.

The criticism in the article of the lack of understanding of scientific and 
mathematcal principles by mos current Marxists is also something which 
really needs taking firmly....

Paddy
http://apling.freeservers.com


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jim Farmelant" <farmelantj at juno.com>
To: <e.c.apling at btinternet.com>
Sent: Monday, May 25, 2009 2:37 AM
Subject: [Marxism] Paul Cockshott on Leonid Kantorovich and the 
socialistcalculation debate


>
> Paul Cockshott on how the Soviet economist and mathematician,
> Leonid Kantorovich (who was the only Soviet economist
> to ever win the Nobel Prize in economics),
> used his work on linear programming to
> answer the arguments of economists like Ludwig von Mises
> and Friedrich Hayek who argued that rational socialist
> economic planning was, even in theory, impossible.
>
> "Calculation in-Natura, from Neurath to Kantorovich"
>
> http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/~wpc/reports/standalonearticle.pdf
> ___________________