Explore Gosplan's soviet Russia work

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https://www.jstor.org/stable/2681923?seq=1

http://crookedtimber.org/2012/05/30/in-soviet-union-optimization-problem-solves-you/

The father of Linear Programming. Wouldn't it be cool if we could include some numbers from the USSR planners in the package?

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https://www.nytimes.com/1973/12/13/archives/soviet-devising-a-computer-net-for-state-planning-big-network-in-us.html

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonid_Kantorovich#References

Perfect! There's even a dataset from his 1939 paper!

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Another gem, a digital copy of 'The Soviet Union: Facts, Descriptions, Statistics' (1929)

https://www.marxists.org/history/ussr/government/1928/sufds/ch05.htm

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There's so much cool stuff in here: https://www.marxists.org/history/ussr/government/economics/statistics/ind-out.htm

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https://paulcockshott.wordpress.com/returning-to-kantorovich/

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Input%E2%80%93output_model

https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=B_87AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA3&lpg=PA3&dq=Conversion+of+Soviet+Input-Output+Tables+to+Producers%E2%80%99+Prices:&source=bl&ots=T1esmRQv7l&sig=ACfU3U2lzcGJUpG7vSKotfnD_P3SKNCetg&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwju_97p0vLmAhUBlFwKHTzrBbkQ6AEwBHoECAoQAQ#v=onepage&q=Conversion%20of%20Soviet%20Input-Output%20Tables%20to%20Producers%E2%80%99%20Prices%3A&f=false

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Looks like I've been conflating Input-Output planning with Material Balance planning

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Input%E2%80%93output_model

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Material_balance_planning

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialist_calculation_debate

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There's a toy example in there that's kind of neat:

https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/6063/1/MPRA_paper_6063.pdf

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https://doi.org/10.2307/2230504