Leonid Vital’evich Kantorovich

Gass, Saul I.; Rosenhead, Jonathan

doi:10.1007/978-1-4419-6281-2_10

International Series in Operations Research &Amp; Management Science

2011

DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-6281-2_10

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Leonid Vital’evich Kantorovich

Saul I. Gass

Jonathan Rosenhead

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“…The existing accounts of Kantorovich stem mostly from himself and his students; predictably, they emphasize his scientifi c struggle for increased effi ciency against the dogmatic orthodoxy(Kantorovich 1990 ;Iljina-Kantorovich and Rosenhead 1990 ;Gass 2011). An actual historical account of his life still waits to be written.…”

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Koopmans in the Soviet Union: A Travel Report of the Summer of 1965

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J Hist Econ Thought

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Tjalling C. Koopmans, research director of the Cowles Foundation of Research in Economics, was the first US economist after World War II who, in the summer of 1965, travelled to the Soviet Union for an official visit to the Central Economics and Mathematics Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR. Koopmans left hoping to learn from the Soviet economists’ experience with applying linear programming to economic planning. Would his own theories, as discovered independently by Leonid V. Kantorovich, help increase allocative efficiency in a socialist economy? Inspired by a vague notion of universal reason spanning the iron curtain, Koopmans may have even envisioned a research community that transcends the political divide. Yet, he came home having discovered that learning about Soviet mathematical economists might be more interesting than learning from them. On top of that, he found the Soviet scene caught in the same deplorable situation he knew all too well from home: that mathematicians are the better economists. Reconstructing Koopmans’s voyage from a first-person perspective puts the spirit of universal economic knowledge at Cowles to test: Is it capable of establishing a dialogue across the political divide of the Cold War or is it limited to the Western academic cocoon?

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Programming the USSR: Leonid V. Kantorovich in context

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In the wake of Stalin's death, many Soviet scientists saw the opportunity to promote their methods as tools for the engineering of economic prosperity in the socialist state. The mathematician Leonid Kantorovich (1912–1986) was a key activist in academic politics that led to the increasing acceptance of what emerged as a new scientific persona in the Soviet Union. Rather than thinking of his work in terms of success or failure, we propose to see his career as exemplifying a distinct form of scholarship, as a partisan technocrat, characteristic of the Soviet system of knowledge production. Confronting the class of orthodox economists, many factors were at work, including Kantorovich's cautious character and his allies in the Academy of Sciences. Drawing on archival and oral sources, we demonstrate how Kantorovich, throughout his career, negotiated the relations between mathematics and economics, reinterpreted political and ideological frames, and reshaped the balance of power in the Soviet academic landscape.

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Leonid Vital’evich Kantorovich

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Koopmans in the Soviet Union: A Travel Report of the Summer of 1965

Koopmans in the Soviet Union: A Travel Report of the Summer of 1965

Programming the USSR: Leonid V. Kantorovich in context

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