>What is the name of those production tables that, for example, told
>central planners in the early soviet days how many kilos of x and z
>material it would take to produce y product? Do I have the concept
>right about how those worked?
You mean input-output tables?
They exist for the U.S. See <http://www.bea.gov/bea/dn2/home/benchmark.htm>.
Doug