 Leonid KantorovichMichael Ellman ()
A chapter in Russian and Western Economic Thought, 2022, pp 427-447 from Springer Abstract: Abstract KantorovichKantorovich, Leonid was a gifted Soviet mathematician and the intellectual inspiration of the optimal planning school in Soviet economics. The range of his work was unusually wide. He contributed to both pure and applied mathematics; taught, first, students of engineering, then also of mathematics, and later of mathematical economics; managed research projects; helped the Soviet atom bomb project; invented calculating machines; criticised the Soviet systems of planning and price determination; worked out the best method for calculating urban public transport fares; and invented linear programming. He was (jointly) awarded the 1975 Nobel Prize in economics for his work on the optimal allocation of resources. His career combined mathematics with (micro)economics. He influenced mathematical and economic thought throughout the world but was unable to realise his ambition to fundamentally reform Soviet planning and pricing. Keywords: Kantorovich; Linear programming; Optimal allocation of resources (search for similar items in EconPapers) There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it. Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:spr:spshcp:978-3-030-99052-7_20 Ordering information: This item can be ordered from DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-99052-7_20 Access Statistics for this chapter More chapters in Springer Studies in the History of Economic Thought from Springer |
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