How Feasible are Jack Ma&apos;s Proposals for Computerized Planning?

Cockshott, Paul

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[1] Berkelaar, M., K. Eikland, and P. Notebaert. 2004. “Lp Solve: (Mixed Integer) Linear Programming Problem Solver.” Eindhoven University of Technology Working Paper No. 63.

[2] Cockshott, W. P. 1990. “Application of Artificial Intelligence Techniques to Economic Planning.” Future Computing Systems 2 (4): 429–443.

[3] Cockshott, P., and A. Cottrell. 1997. “Information and Economics: A Critique of Hayek.” Research in Political Economy 18 (1): 177–202.

[4] Dantzig, G. B., and P. Wolfe. 1961. “The Decomposition Algorithm for Linear Programming.” Econometrica 29 (4): 767–778.

[5] Dantzig, G. 2002. “Linear Programming.” Operations Research 50 (1): 42–47.

[6] Greenwood. D. 2006. “Commensurability and Beyond: From Mises and Neurath to the Future of the Socialist Calculation Debate.” Economy and Society 35 (1): 65–90.

[7] Grey, P. 2015. “How Many Products Does Amazon Sell?” https://export-x.com/2015/12/11/how-many-products-does-amazon-sell-2015.

[8] Hayek, F. A. 1945. “The Use of Knowledge in Society.” American Economic Review 35 (4): 519–530.

[9] Kantorovich, L. V. 1960. “Mathematical Methods of Organizing and Planning Production.” Management Science 6 (4): 366–422.

[10] Kantorovich, L.V. 1965. The Best Use of Economic Resources. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

[11] Lange, O. 1938. On the Economic Theory of Socialism. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press.

[12] Lange, O. 1967. “The Computer and the Market.” In Socialism, Capitalism and Economic Growth: Essays Presented to Maurice Dobb, edited by C. H. Feinstein, 158–161. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

[13] Marciszewski, W. 2002. “Hypercomputational vs. Computational Complexity: A Challenge for Methodology of the Social Sciences.” Studies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric 5 (18): 11–31.

[14] Nove, A. 1983. The Economics of Feasible Socialism. London: Routledge.

[15] Reifferscheidt, M., and P. Cockshott. 2014. “Average and Marginal Labour Values Are: On Log (n)—A Reply to Hagendorf.” World Review of Political Economy 5 (2): 258–275.

[16] Shalizi, C. 2012. “The Impossible Takes a Little Longer.” http://bactra.org/weblog/919.html.

[17] Smolensky, P. 1986. “Information Processing in Dynamical Systems: Foundations of Harmony Theory.” Colorado University at Boulder Department of Computer Science Working Paper No. CU-CS-321-86.

[18] Sraffa, P. 1960. Production of Commodities by Means of Commodities. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

[19] Thornhill, J. 2017. “The Big Data Revolution Can Revive the Planned Economy.” Financial Times, September 4.

[20] Von Mises, L. 1935. “Economic Calculation in the Socialist Commonwealth.” In Collectivist Economic Planning, edited by F. A. Hayek, 87–130. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul.

[21] Von Mises, L. 1951. Socialism: An Economic and Sociological Analysis. London: Jonathan Cape.