The Soviet Planning Economists

• Stanislav Gustavovich Strumilin, 1877-1974.
• Wealth and Labor, 1905.
• "Economic Significance of National Education", 1924, Planovove khoziastvo.
• Problems of the Economics of Labor, 1925.
• Essays on the Soviet Economy, 1928.
• "On the Problem of Efficiency of Capital Expenditure", 1929, Planovove khoziastvo.
• The Industrial Revolution in Russia, 1944.
• "The Time Factor in Capital Investment Projects", 1945, Izvestiia Akademii Nauk SSR.
• Out of My Past, 1897-1917.  1957.
• "The Economics of Education in the USSR", 1962, Eknomicheskaia gazeta.
• Soviet economist, initially a Menshevik, then mastermind of the Soviet "War Economy" of the 1920s.  Later concentrated on labor issues, in particular measuring the impact of education on wage differentials.  Authored the famous "Strumilin index" of labor productivity.
• Grigorii Alexandrovic Fel'dman

• Nikolai Ivanovitch Bukharin, 1888-1938.

•   Evgenii Alexeyevich Preobrazhensky, 1886-1937.
• The ABC of Communism, with Nikolai Bukharin, 1920
• Paper Money in the Epoch of the Proletarian Dictatorship, 1922.
• From NEP to Socialism, 1922.
• The New Economics, 1926.
• Economics and Finances of Contemporary France, 1926.
• The Theory of a Depreciating Currency, 1930.
• The Decline of Capitalism, 1931.
• The Crisis of Soviet Industrialization, 1980.
• Russian Bolshevik, Preobrazhensky was largely responsible for rewriting Marxian theory for an agrarian economy, particularly emphasizing the possibility of "socialist accumulation" to replace the capitalist phase (1926) by expanding industry at the expense of peasantry (via prices, not coercion), a proposition that went against the idea of the New Economic Policy and led to a period under exile in Siberia.   As a result, he soon became a favorite of Joseph Stalin, who brought him back into public life.  It was his prediction of the crisis caused by Stalin's industrialization plans that led him to be arrested in 1936, and subsequently shot.   

• Vasili Sergeevich Nemchinov, 1894-1964.
• "On the Statistical Study of Rural Class Stratification", 1926, Bulleting of Urals Regional Statistical Admin.
• "Experience from the Classification of Peasant Households", Vestnik statistiki.
• The Use of Mathematics in Economics, 3 volumes, 1959-65.
• Methods and Models of Mathematical Economics, 1967-9.
• Selected Works, 1967-9.
• Soviet agricultural economist, promoter of the use of statistical models for planning.   Highly influential upon the Soviet planning boards.  Led the way for the revival of serious economic analysis in the Soviet Union.

• Viktor Valentinovich Novozhilov, 1892-1970
• "Methods of Co-Measuring the Economic Effectiveness of Variants in Planning and Project Making", 1939, Trudy Leningradskogo industrial'nogo instituta.
• "Methods of Co-Measuring Current Outlays and Investments", 1941, Trudy Leningradskogo industrial'nogo instituta.
• "Methods of Finding Minimum Expenditure in a Socialist Economy", 1946, Leningradskii politkhnicheskii institut.
• "Methods of Finding the Maximum Efect of Capital Investments in the Socialist Economy", 1947, Trudy Leningradskogo finansovo ekonomicheskogo instituta.
• Problems of Cost-Benefit Analysis in Optimal Planning.  1962
• Questions of the Development of Socialist Economics, 1972.
• Leningrad economist who used concept of opportunity cost for planning purposes.   Particularly concerned with efficient allocation of capital over time.

• Nikolai Alekseevich Voznesensky, 1903-1950.
• "On the Results of Socialist Reproduction in the Second 5-Year Plan", 1939, Bolshevik.
• "Three Stalinist Five-Year Plans for Building Socialism", 1940, Bolshevik.
• The War Economy of the USS in the Period of the Patriotic War, 1948.
• Soviet planner,  Chairman of USSR State Planning Commission after the purges of 1938, but was relatively inept.   Eventually purged in the 1940s.  Promoted idea that the law of value would not be invalidated in a Socialist economy.

• Leonid Vitalievich Kantorovich, 1912-1986.

Non-Soviet Planning Theorists

• Enrico Barone, 1859-1924.

• Oskar Lange, 1904-1965.

• Abba P. Lerner, 1903-1982.

• Wassily Leontief, 1906-1999.

• The Kiel School

• Michal Kalecki, 1899-1970.

• Pierre Massé and the French Postwar Marginalists

• Jan Tinbergen, 1903-1994.

• Leonid Hurwicz, 1917-

• Andras Bródy, 1924-

• Janos Kornai, 1928-

• Branko Horvat

• Evsey Domar, 1914-1997

• Alexander Erlich

• Edmond Malinvaud, 1923-

• Geoffrey M. Heal, 1944-

Researchers on the Soviet Economy

• E. Austin G. Robinson, 1897-

• Abram Bergson, 1914-

• Charles Bettelheim, 1913-

• Alexander N. Nove, 1915-1994

Resources on Soviet Planning

• HET Pages: the Socialist Calculation Debate.
• "Rent for Revenue: Open letter to Mikhail Gorbachev", 1990 -- petition of prominent Western economists.