As a reformed neo-liberal, I recently came across Cockshott’s Towards a New Socialism, and I have to say I’m absolutely stunned. I never even considered there could be anything other than markets to allocate resource in an at least somewhat efficient manner.
I realize that the field has received very little attention, and I am unable to find much other sophisticated research on the topic of computer-optimized central planning or modern takes on the economic calculation problem.
Here are the few things I did manage to find:
Economic Calculation in Light of Advances in Big Data and Artificial Intelligence
Review of Towards a New Socialism? by W. Paul Cockshott and Allin F. Cottrell
Does anyone know any other things I can look into?
There’s a book out of MIT Press which details the history of CyberSyn of the Allende regime. I think the approach taken here will not work. It’s computationally impossible with classical computing. It may be possible with quantum computers, but we don’t have enough accelerated algorithms yet to test, much less there also being no hardware yet either. That’s gonna take decades of pure computer science research.
I think that’s incorrect the problem of implementation isn’t the scale of computing but the economic calculation, price indexs have built-in problems like the crisis of overproduction. Many planning apparatuses are already used in production today it’s a function of how of modern economy works to meet the needs of people you would have to change the economic calculation, in marxist terms it would be changing CMC to CC i.e. commodity exchange for money back to commodity would instead be commodity to commodity.