Linear programming is primarily a mathematical technique for optimizing resource allocation. Therefore, it could be portrayed as having nothing to do with Marxism, although Kantorovich's work was motivated by the concern with making attempting to make GOSPLAN work more efficiently. Koopman's work stemmed out of efforts during WW II to make planning for military production more efficient.
Jim Farmelant
-- Chris Doss <lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com> wrote:
Wait a second -- they wouldn't have awarded it to Robinson because she was a leftist, but at the same time had no problem with awarding it to a Soviet economist?
--- On Tue, 2/17/09, farmelantj at juno.com <farmelantj at juno.com> wrote:
\ Indeed, Business Week
> published a profile on her, precisely because
> they were expecting her to win the Prize, but
> the Nobel committee, instead, at the last moment,
> awarded it to the Soviet economist, Leonid Kantorovich,
> and the American, Tjalling C. Koopmans, for their
> work in creating linear programming.
>
> Apparently, Robinson despite her contributions
> in such areas as the analysis of imperfect
> competition and capital theory (work which
> was of at least the same caliber as that
> of other economists who did win the Prize)
> was denied it because of her outspoken
> leftist, even Maoist, politics,
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