[lbo-talk] Soviet planners

[Daniel Davies]

> Well, they did important work on linear programming
and input-output analyses. The question is, did they
use Marxist categories in this analysis, as opposed to
being researchers from nominally Communist countries.<

For the most part, yes they did make at least some use of categories
recognisable as those of the labour theory of value.  I've got a book on it
somewhere.

Marxist categories show up in the oddest places; until the late 1990s,
insurance premium was not a deductable expense, because (as noted in the
Critique of the Gotha Program) analytically it's part of surplus-value.

dd

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