[Marxism-Thaxis] Return after 10 years

2009-06-03 Thread cb31450
GERALD DOWNING gerdowning at btinternet.com Tue May 12 06:58:01 MDT 2009 Comrades,This is a return after about ten years. Here is a post from that time (2000) and an add for my WRP Explosion going online

[Marxism-Thaxis] Paul Cockshott on Leonid Kantorovich and the socialist calculation debate

2009-06-03 Thread c b
CeJ jannuzi If Cockshott had waited a bit more, he might not look the complete fool he does here. This is still largely an argument based on the idea that logistics is economics turned into a hard science. That would

[Marxism-Thaxis] Paul Cockshott on Leonid Kantorovich and the socialist calculation debate

2009-06-03 Thread c b
CeJ jannuzi The Nobel Prize in Economics is arguably not a real Nobel Prize since Alfred Nobel made no provision for such a prize in his will. It was instead established by the Bank of Sweden in the late 1960s

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Paul Cockshott on Leonid Kantorovich and the socialist calculation debate

2009-06-03 Thread CeJ
CB: What's logistics ? Basically, the science of how an economy supplies and distributes goods. Kantorovich and others work in linear programming has application for logistics. One take on Hayek's so-called arguments against central planning is that he is saying central planning requires too