To Command or to Understand? Planning Concepts and Economic Research in Communist Bulgaria

Avramov, Roumen and Ganev, Kaloyan and Petranov, Stefan (2022): To Command or to Understand? Planning Concepts and Economic Research in Communist Bulgaria. Published in: In book: Communist Planning versus Rationality: Mathematical Economics and the Central Plan in Eastern Europe and China (2022): pp. 19-54.

Abstract

The chapter investigates the craft of planning from the perspective of "adjacent" economic research.

• Item Type: MPRA Paper
• Language: English
• Keywords: central planning, economic research, economic history
• Subjects: B - History of Economic Thought, Methodology, and Heterodox Approaches > B3 - History of Economic Thought: Individuals > B30 - General; B - History of Economic Thought, Methodology, and Heterodox Approaches > B3 - History of Economic Thought: Individuals > B31 - Individuals; C - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods > C0 - General > C02 - Mathematical Methods

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