0
0
0
0
Hashtag
#IMPLAN
Advertisement · 728 × 90
IMPLAN Introduces Innovative Economic Tools to Address Tariff Effects and Price Volatility #USA #Huntersville #IMPLAN #Economic_Tools #Price_Insights
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
Răspîndiţi: Asta ne aşteaptă dacă nu vom lua măsuri la timp! O fetiţă nu primeşte lapte pentru că nu are... CIP! Asta ne asteaptă în viitorul apropiat, dacă nu luăm măsuri din timp. Vă rugăm să răspândiți… Un videoclip socant face furori pe internet. Ne […]
[Original post on mastodon.social]
0
0
0
0
Maksim Maksimovich would probably not have been working the balances himself, this particular October morning, if a plague flu had not swept through the Gosplan tower, felling several of of his subordinates Just as the frantic final wecks of plan revision began- The situation was nuisance: yet how exhilarating to get back into the specifics of the system again, with its never-ending complexities. He whistled under his breath as he trundled his judgement calls, its hidden little psychological games, its lateral famous chair in front of him across the herringbone parquet of the eighteenth floor. The chair was famous because he could trundle it. It was an ingenious East German contrivance, terribly comfortable to sit in, which had four little castors at the end of legs curving out from a central metal column. He had brought it back himself, by train from Berlin, and used it to spin to and fro acros his office at alarming speeds. On its seat, two volumes of chemical-industry input co-efficients were weighing down a thin file of correspondence. Going into battle? said a passer-by from Non-Ferrous That's how the steel was tempered,' he said. 'How many down with it, with you? Eleven so far, and two more suspiciously green. You? Worse! The balances were kept in a long, library-like room lined with fling cabinets, watched over by a librarian-like gorgon at a central desk. Pop Mokhov showed his pass - though in his case, it was not strictly necessary and seated himself at a workspace where there was a convenient spare abacus. He shot his cuffs with a touch of theatre, and opened the file. This room had been his playground for many years, and it stimulated him still. In its Brey metal drawers this year were 373 folders, each holding work- in-progress on the balance for a commodity. Three hundred and seventy-three commodities: represented, for the most part, in
the highest possible state of generality, so that each one of them rolled together under a single heading what was in practice a mass of different products. Yet still they cast only the loosest and most imperfect conceptual net over the prodigious output of the economy as a whole. There were a quarter of a million separate items listed in the specified classification of the electro-technical industry alone. You could never capture the activity of something so huge, so irredeemably multiple, in 373 folders. It would have been an absurd error, therefore, to suppose that the room in any substantial sense contained the economy. The best that could be said was that it contained a kind of strategic outline of it. No; that was not quite true. The best that could be said about the room was that it worked, and had done for thirty years. Some of the folders tracked the basics of industrial life: steel, concrete, coal, oil, lumber, electric power. Some were devoted to the food supply, and to agriculture's inputs of tractors and fertiliser. Some attended to sensitive military items. Some followed the production of very specific pieces of critical machinery, because these were the tools on which whole other sectors depended for their existence. Some paid special attention to new technologies just now being bootstrapped into being- Some concentrated things many different industries used. It on was an ad hoc apparatus, not one generated predictably from a set of axioms. It was not the result of any economic theory. But it functioned. It provided the economy with something necessary: a place where the incompatible demands made on it would reveal themselves, where they finally rose up and required to be reconciled, with whatever finesse a planner could muster. And finesse it needed to be, for the 373 commodities did not exist independently They were interconnected. A change to the output of one might send ripples of change through many others.
Alright, this is fun. Lots of US economic development planners have worked with input-output models like #IMPLAN. I remember reading that it was based on Soviet planning & while this is from a novel it sure sounds a lot like what we see here.
1
0
0
0
Creating resilient #cities for the future! Discover more about #IKI´s successful Morgenstadt Global Smart Cities Initiative ➡️ www.international-climate-initiative.com/NEWS2597-1
@unistuttgart.bsky.social #IAOStuttgart #FrankfurtSchool #UniversityPiura #IMPLAN #NIUA
1
0
0
0