... KARENI. VAUGHN The Mathematical Revolution in Soviet Economics. By Alfred Zauberman. London, New York, and Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1975. Pp. 62. $9.00. The raison d’Ctre of this very short and very expensive volume is to provide a nontechnical insight...

... difficulties in managing the growing economy, opened the way to new approaches to Soviet economics. Scholars, primarily at a new Academy of Sciences institute for applying mathematics to economic problems—the Central Economic-Mathematical Institute—developed a series of models and policy recommendations...

...Ivan Boldyrev; Olessia Kirtchik In this article we address the story of developments in general equilibrium theory in the Soviet Union during the 1970s through the lens of a single biography. The Soviet advances in mathematical economics give an occasion to reflect on the extension of the Walrasian...

... countries. Even more intriguingly, Braverman s theory of the real Soviet economy did not ˆt into the main trends in Soviet mathematical economic analysis, which dealt either with the optimization of centralized planning or with its decentralized versions often interpreted in terms of market socialism...

...Yakov Feygin This article examines the career of Yakov Kronrod, a Soviet economic theorist, in the context of the larger transformation of Soviet economics in the post-Stalin period. It argues that Kronrod’s debates with his rivals in the “Mathematical Economics” and “Moscow State University...

... of Soviet cybernetics, mathematical economics, and related elds (Gerovitch 2002; Boldyrev and Kirtchik 272 Ivan Boldyrev 1. The term upravleniye refers to control (also as a mathematical term applied in the theory due to Lev Pontryagin in the 1960s), but also, importantly, to management and governance...

...”) and incompatible with mar- riage and a family is likely to irritate her female readers. University of Tennessee KARENI. VAUGHN The Mathematical Revolution in Soviet Economics. By Alfred Zauberman. London, New York, and Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1975. Pp. 62...

... heralding the direction of his life s work.6 In 1973 he moved to the Central Economic Mathematical Institute (CEMI), the heart of Soviet mathemat- ical reformist economics, before joining the newly formed Institute for the Forecasting of Scienti€c and Technical Progress in 1986. Yaremenko s intellectual...

... .” Annual Review of Anthropology 42 : 327 – 43 . Leeds Adam . 2016 . “ Dreams in Cybernetic Fugue: Cold War Technoscience, the Intelligentsia, and the Birth of Soviet Mathematical Economics .” Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences 46 ( 5 ): 633 – 68 . Majone Giandomenico...

... on economics and economists. The growing professionalism in Soviet society and the cross-fertilization of fresh ideas advanced in different fields have played an important role. Expanding contacts with Western economic theories and with the related fields of econometrics and mathematical economics...

..., nos. 1 -2 ( 1967 ). Zauberman , A. “The Soviet Debate on the Law of Value and Price Formation.” In Value and Plan , ed. G. Grossman, p. 17 -46. Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1960 . Zauberman , A. “The Rapprochment Between East and West in Mathematical-Economic Thought.” Manchester...

.... In conclusion, the essays are informative, stimulating and well executed with an economy of style. St. Lawrence University JEFFREY T. YOUNG Socialism, planning and optimality: a study in Soviet economic thought. By Pekka Sutela. Helsinki: Finnish Society of Science...

.... Romanov. 1972 . “Logistic Curve and Some Related Problems”. Ekonomika i matematicheskie metody 8 : 763 -68. Hadley , G. 1962 . Linear Programming . Reading, Mass. Hardt , J. P. , M. Hoffenberg, and H. S. Levine, eds. 1967 . Mathematics and Computers in Soviet Economic Planning...

... of the Theory of Functions in the 1930s. In Golden Years of Moscow Mathematics , edited by Smilka Zdravkovska and Peter L. Duren. Providence, R.I.: American Mathematical Society. Dobb , Maurice. 1966 . Soviet Economic Development since 1917 . London: Routledge & Kegan Paul. Friedman...

... approach was enshrined in the State Statistical Bureau (SSB, established in 1952). SSB statisticians consulted with Soviet counterparts, invited Soviet experts for conferences and training visits, and adopted the Soviets’ rigid distinction between mathematical statistics (abstract, grounded in probability...

...Oleg Ananyin; Denis Melnik The article traces trends in Soviet economic discourse from the 1920s until perestroika. We examine the works of leading political economists of this period through the lens of debates on market exchanges under socialism—the central theoretical issue of the political...

.... Mathematics is useful in dealing with the technical engineering aspect of economics, but it must abstract away from what is not convenient to handle mathematically in the political-social-economic aspects of the real world. In Soviet society the most important issue is not planning with given...

...- versity teaching of economics in the USSR, but academic economics reflected generally the role and position of the economic profession in Soviet society. Perhaps most relevant for our interest in the history of economic thought would be a brief summary of the teaching of economics at Moscow...

... in Soviet Thought 10 : 291 -315. Roth, Alvin E. 1993 . The Early History of Experimental Economics. Journal of the History of Economic Thought 15.2 : 184 -209. Safire, William. 1995 . The Greatest Auction Ever. New York Times , 16 March. Sasieni, Maurice, Arthur Yaspan, and Lawrence Friedman...

..., and education. A development economist, Hoselitz established the cross-disciplinary jour- nal Economic Development and Cultural Change: economics appeared alongside articles on geography, sociology, and politics. The journal Soviet Studies offers another example of a journal where economists and other...