Editing Planned economy (section)

=== Computational economic planning ===
{{further|Government by algorithm}}

In 1959 [[Anatoly Kitov]] proposed a distributed computing system (Project "Red Book", {{langx |ru| Красная книга}}) with a focus on the management of the Soviet economy. Opposition from the [[Ministry of Defense (Soviet Union)|Defence Ministry]] killed Kitov's plan.<ref>
{{cite book
 | last1                = Kitov
 | first1               = Vladimir A.
 | last2                = Shilov
 | first2               = Valery V.
 | last3                = Silantiev
 | first3               = Sergey A.
 | chapter              = Trente ans ou la Vie d'un scientifique
 | editor1-last         = Gadducci
 | editor1-first        = Fabio
 | editor2-last         = Tavosanis
 | editor2-first        = Mirko
 | title                = History and Philosophy of Computing: Third International Conference, HaPoC 2015, Pisa, Italy, October 8–11, 2015, Revised Selected Papers
 | url                  = https://books.google.com/books?id=nNY0DQAAQBAJ
 | series               = Volume 487 of IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology 
 | issn =1868-4238
 | date = 5 October 2016
 | location             = Cham, Switzerland
 | publisher            = Springer
 | publication-date     = 2016
 | page                 = 191
 | isbn                 = 978-3319472867
 | access-date          = 12 September 2021
 | quote                = [...] "Measures to overcome the shortcomings in the development, production and introduction of computers in the Armed Forces and national economy". Today this project is known among the specialists as the 'Red Book' project. It was the first project in the USSR, which proposed to combine all the computers in the country into a unified network of compter centers. In peacetime this network must have fulfilled both national economic and defense tasks [...].
}}
</ref>

In 1971 the socialist [[Presidency of Salvador Allende|Allende administration]] of Chile launched [[Project Cybersyn]] to install a telex machine in every corporation and organization in the economy for the communication of economic data between firms and the government. The data was also fed into a computer-simulated economy for forecasting. A control room was built for real-time observation and management of the overall economy. The prototype-stage of the project showed promise when it was used to redirect supplies around a trucker's strike,<ref name=":2">{{cite journal|author=Eden Medina|title= Designing Freedom, Regulating a Nation: Socialist Cybernetics in Allende's Chile|journal=J. Lat. Am. Stud.|number=38|pages=571–606|doi=10.1017/S0022216X06001179|year=2006|volume=38|publisher=Cambridge University Press|s2cid= 26484124}}</ref> but after CIA-backed [[Augusto Pinochet]] led a [[1973 Chilean coup d'état|coup in 1973]] that established a [[Military dictatorship of Chile (1973–1990)|military dictatorship]] under his rule the program was abolished and Pinochet moved Chile towards a more [[Economic liberalization|liberalized]] [[market economy]].

In their book ''[[Towards a New Socialism]]'' (1993), the computer scientist [[Paul Cockshott]] from the [[University of Glasgow]] and the economist Allin Cottrell from [[Wake Forest University]] claim to demonstrate how a democratically planned economy built on modern computer technology is possible and drives the thesis that it would be both economically more stable than the free-market economies and also morally desirable.<ref name=":1" />