Kantorovich, Leonid (Vitalyevich)
- Kantorovich, Leonid (Vitalyevich)
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born Jan. 19, 1912, St. Petersburg, Russia
died April 7, 1986, U.S.S.R.
Soviet mathematician and economist.
A professor at Leningrad State University (1934–60), he developed the
linear programming model as a tool of economic planning. He used mathematical techniques to show how decentralization of decision making in a planned economy ultimately depends on a system in which prices are based on the relative scarcity of resources. His nondogmatic critical analyses of Soviet economic policy often clashed with the views of his orthodox Marxist colleagues. His most notable work is
The Best Use of Economic Resources (1959). In 1975 he and Tjalling Koopmans (1910–85) shared the Nobel Prize for their work on optimal allocation of scarce resources.
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Kantorovich, Leonid Vitalyevich — ▪ Russian mathematician and economist born January 19 [January 6, Old Style], 1912, St. Petersburg, Russia died April 7, 1986, U.S.S.R. Soviet mathematician and economist who shared the 1975 Nobel Prize for Economics with Tjalling Koopmans… … Universalium
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Kantorovich — /kan tawr euh vich, kan teuh roh vich/; Russ. /kun taw rddeuh vyich/, n. Leonid Vitalyevich /lay euh nid vi tal yeuh vich/; Russ. /lyi u nyeet vyi tah lyeuh vyich/, 1912 86, Soviet mathematician and economist: Nobel prize for economics 1975. * *… … Universalium
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Koopmans, Tjalling C. — ▪ American economist in full Tjalling Charles Koopmans born Aug. 28, 1910, s Graveland, Neth. died Feb. 26, 1985, New Haven, Conn., U.S. Dutch born American economist who shared with Leonid Kantorovich (Kantorovich, Leonid Vitalyevich) of … Universalium
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