Communist Planning versus Rationality: Mathematical Economics and the Central Plan in Eastern Europe and China

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Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Another “Grand Illusion”— Optimizing the Central Plan
Chapter 1 To Command or to Understand? Planning Concepts and Economic Research in Communist Bulgaria
Chapter 2 Quantitative Economics in China From Planned Economy to Socialist Market Economy
Chapter 3 Mathematical Economics and Central Planning Economic Research in Czechoslovakia under Communism
Chapter 4 Theory and Political Economy of Central Planning in East Germany
Chapter 5 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 7 The Failure of Communist Planning A Perspective from Romania
Chapter 8 Communism = Soviet Power + Planning Planning and Mathematical Economics in the Soviet Union
Chapter 9 Mathematical Economics, Economic Modeling, and Planning in Yugoslavia
Conclusion Rationality Found and Lost? In Search of a New Historical Narrative of Optimal Planning
Index
About the Editor and Contributors