Editing Planned economy (section)

=== Cybernetics ===
[[File:CyberSyn-render-106.png|right|250px|thumb|[[Project Cybersyn]] was an early form of computational [[economic planning]].]]

The use of computers to coordinate production in an optimal fashion has been variously proposed for [[socialist economies]]. The Polish economist [[Oskar Lange]] (1904–1965) argued that the computer is more efficient than the market process at solving the multitude of simultaneous equations required for allocating economic inputs efficiently (either in terms of physical quantities or monetary prices).<ref name=":3">{{cite web|url= http://www.calculemus.org/lect/L-I-MNS/12/ekon-i-modele/lange-comp-market.htm|title= The Computer and the Market|last= Lange|first= Oskar|publisher= Calculemus.org|date= 1979|access-date= 12 September 2012|archive-date= 17 April 2021|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20210417151550/https://www.calculemus.org/lect/L-I-MNS/12/ekon-i-modele/lange-comp-market.htm|url-status= live}}</ref>

In the Soviet Union, [[Anatoly Kitov]] had proposed to the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union a detailed plan for the re-organization of the control of the Soviet armed forces and of the Soviet economy on the basis of a network of computing centers in 1959.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Kitova|first=O|others=Translated by Alexander Nitusov|title=Kitov Anatoliy Ivanovich. Russian Virtual Computer Museum|url=https://www.computer-museum.ru/english/galglory_en/Kitov.htm|access-date=2021-10-11|website=computer-museum.ru|archive-date=2023-02-04|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230204143509/https://www.computer-museum.ru/english/galglory_en/Kitov.htm|url-status=live}}</ref> Kitov's proposal was rejected, as later was the 1962 [[OGAS]] economy management network project.<ref>{{Cite book |isbn = 978-0262034180|title = How Not to Network a Nation: The Uneasy History of the Soviet Internet|last1 = Peters|first1 = Benjamin|date = 25 March 2016| publisher=MIT Press }}</ref> Soviet [[cybernetician]], [[Viktor Glushkov]] argued that his OGAS information network would have delivered a fivefold [[savings|savings return]] for the [[Soviet economy]] over the first fifteen-year investment.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Peters |first1=Benjamin |title=How not to network a nation : the uneasy history of the Soviet internet |date=2016 |location=Cambridge, Massachusetts |isbn=978-0262034180 |pages=114}}</ref>

[[Salvador Allende]]'s socialist government pioneered the 1970 Chilean distributed [[decision support system]] [[Project Cybersyn]] in an attempt to move towards a decentralized planned economy with the [[Viable system model|experimental viable system model]] of computed organisational structure of autonomous operative units through an [[algedonic feedback]] setting and bottom-up participative decision-making in the form of [[participative democracy]] by the Cyberfolk component.<ref>
[http://www.cybersyn.cl/ingles/cybersyn/cyberfolk.html "Cyberfolk"]. Project Cybersyn. {{webarchive |url= https://web.archive.org/web/20110512062330/http://www.cybersyn.cl/ingles/cybersyn/cyberfolk.html
|date=12 May 2011}}. Retrieved 6 August 2020.
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