Article ID: CBB629260864

The Cultures of Mathematical Economics in the Postwar Soviet Union: More Than a Method, Less Than a Discipline (2017)

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The first detailed historical exposition of the Soviet mathematical economics. Singles out different epistemic cultures within Soviet economic science. Demonstrates the entanglement of cybernetics, optimization, and economic thinking. Exhibits the progress and limitations of the Cold war social science.

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Authors & Contributors
Peters, Benjamin
Improta, Gennaro
Genovese, Andrea
Düppe, Till
Bruno, Giuseppe
Boldyrev, Ivan
Journals
VIET: Voprosy Istorii Estestvoznaniia i Tekhniki
Science in Context
British Society for the History of Mathematics Bulletin
Ulbandus: The Slavic Review of Columbia University
Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences
Journal Electronique d'Histoire des Probabilités et de la Statistique
Publishers
Basic Books (Perseus)
Aracne
Cambridge University Press
Concepts
Cybernetics
Mathematics
Economics
Cold War
Optimization problems (mathematics)
Central planning
People
Wiener, Norbert
Victor Glushkov
Bogdanov, A. Aleksandr
Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich
Fermat, Pierre de
Von Neumann, John
Time Periods
20th century
20th century, late
19th century
Early modern
Modern
18th century
Places
Soviet Union
United States
Russia
Czechoslovakia
France
China
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