I’ve noticed some users here have mentioned the work of Paul Cockshott and I’m interested in looking into the computational aspects of planning.

I already know a bit about operations research, but couldn’t find a good introductory paper about modern economic planning theories, specially since stuff like Google Scholar ranks by citations.

I’m currently reading “Towards a New Socialism” but it doesn’t look like it’ll delve too deeply into algorithms as far as I’ve got. Should I drop it and look into “Classical Econophysics” first? Or does anybody know a more technical book that I should look into?

  • Parsani [love/loves, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    11·
    3 months ago

    The new book he published with Cottrell and Dapprich is called Economic Planning in an Age of Climate Crisis. It’s short but good. On libgen.

    You may just want to look into some of Kantorovichs work on linear programming, like The Best Use of Economic Resources.

    Here are a few other things:

    Receding Horizon Planning, Zacharia

    Apolito, Aurora. ‘The Problem of Scale in Anarchism and the Case for Cybernetic Communism’. IIRC the author (via a pen name) is a Caltech physicist

    Tomas Haerdin, Swedish researcher. He has a website with some stuff. https://www.haerdin.se/category/blog.html

    Dapprich’s dissertation: Dapprich, Jan Philipp. ‘Rationality and Distribution in the Socialist Economy’. It was okay. He co-authored cockshitts new book I mentioned above.

    Casperforum.org. A bit dead, but you may find something of interest.

    ogas 2.0 https://cibcom.org/national-automated-system-of-computation-and-information-processing-ogas-2-0/ The pet project of some guy in Russia

    Nikolay Veduta

    I-EPOS

    I have some more references but I’m on my phone. I’ll try to remember to add more later.

  • juchenecromancer
    5·
    3 months ago

    If you want to look into actual algorithms I’m pretty sure that Cockshott himself has published papers on his proposed algorithms. Last time i read New Socialism I’m pretty sure he mentioned them by title.

      • Makan ☭ CPUSAEnglish
        3·
        3 months ago

        It doesn’t seem that way to me. It seems that they’re knowledgeable when it comes to the discipline but that’s not saying much; a lot of other people are.