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Vasily Nemchinov

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Vasily Nemchinov
Василий Немчинов
Born
Vasily Sergeyevich Nemchinov

(1894-01-14)14 January 1894
Died5 November 1964(1964-11-05) (aged 70)
NationalityRussian
Scientific career
FieldsEconomics, mathematics
InstitutionsCentral Economic Mathematical Institute

Vasily Sergeyevich Nemchinov (Russian: Василий Cергеевич Немчинов; 14 January 1894 – 5 November 1964) was a Soviet and Russian economist and mathematician. Nemchinov is credited with introducing mathematical methods into Soviet economics, thus creating a scientific basis for central planning.

Biography

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Nemchinov was born in Grabovo. He attended secondary school in Chelyabinsk until 1913. He then studied at the economics department of the Moscow Institute of Commerce (Russian: Московский коммерческий институт). After graduation in 1917 he began to work as an economist and statistician for the local government in the Chelyabinsk Oblast.

Works

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  • "On the Statistical Study of Rural Class Stratification", 1926, Bulleting of Urals Regional Statistical Admin.
  • "Experience from the Classification of Peasant Households", Vestnik statistiki.
  • The Use of Mathematics in Economics, 3 volumes, 1959-65.
  • Methods and Models of Mathematical Economics, 1967-9.
  • Selected Works, 1967-9.

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