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Sep 19, 2026
Kristaps AndrejsonsHOST
And what rushes into the vacuum in the Russian Federation is not regulatory agility.
Kristaps AndrejsonsHOST
It's the sclerotic corpse of Gosplan, reanimated, wearing modern acronyms and carrying an FSB warrant.
Kristaps AndrejsonsHOST
Consider the fuel crisis that has rolled across the country these past two months.
Kristaps AndrejsonsHOST
Russia historically exported roughly half of its diesel production.
Pete QuiñonesHOST
A massive war against the peasantry lay ahead, and Stalin could not afford to alienate any of his reliable allies and probably thought that in this campaign against a disproportionately Slavic population, it would be better to rely on Jews than on Russians.
Pete QuiñonesHOST
He preserved the Russian majority in the Gosplan.
Pete QuiñonesHOST
The commanding heights of collectivization-
Matthew Raphael JohnsonGUEST
The Jewish, the Jewish majority
Pete QuiñonesHOST
I'm sorry.
Pete QuiñonesHOST
He preserved the Jewish majority in the Gosplan.
Pete QuiñonesHOST
The commanding heights of collectivization and its theory included, of course, Larin.
Pete QuiñonesHOST
Lev Kritzman was director of the Agrarian Institute from 1928.
Pete QuiñonesHOST
Moses Rakhimovich was deputy chair of Supreme Sovi- of Supreme Soviet of the National Economy.
Pete QuiñonesHOST
Levum Levin was a member of Presidium of Gosplan, Ministry of Economic Planning of USSR, and chair of Gosplan of RSFSR, later deputy Narkom of Finances of USSR.
Pete QuiñonesHOST
Zachary Katzenelenbogen, that's the most Russian name I've ever seen in my life.
Matthew Raphael JohnsonGUEST
I know, I know.
Matthew Raphael JohnsonGUEST
One hu- uh, you can't trade with a country and send, send your people there and, and even if you don't recognize them, well, of course you recognize them.
Matthew Raphael JohnsonGUEST
De facto, but you recognize them.
Matthew Raphael JohnsonGUEST
Uh, so these guys were, are serious, and chair of Gosplan, uh, the beginning of the central planning system.
Matthew Raphael JohnsonGUEST
This is just of, of, of Russia.
Pete QuiñonesHOST
A massive war against the peasantry lay ahead, and Stalin could not afford to alienate any of his reliable allies and probably thought that in this campaign against a disproportionately Slavic population, it would be better to rely on Jews than on Russians.
Pete QuiñonesHOST
He preserved the Russian majority in the Gosplan.
Pete QuiñonesHOST
The commanding heights of collectivization-
Matthew Raphael JohnsonGUEST
The Jewish, the Jewish majority.
Pete QuiñonesHOST
I'm sorry.
Pete QuiñonesHOST
He preserved the Jewish majority in the Gosplan.
Pete QuiñonesHOST
The commanding heights of collectivization and its theory included, of course, Larin.
Pete QuiñonesHOST
Lev Kritzman was director of the Agrarian Institute from 1928.
Pete QuiñonesHOST
Moses Rikimovich was deputy chair of Supreme Sovi- uh, of Supreme Soviet of the National Economy.
Pete QuiñonesHOST
Ruvim Levin was a member of Presidium of Gosplan, Ministry of Economic Planning of USSR, and chair of Gosplan of RSFSR, later deputy Narkom of Finances of USSR.
Pete QuiñonesHOST
Zachary Katzenelenbogen, that's the most Russian name I've ever seen in my life.
Matthew Raphael JohnsonGUEST
I know, I know.
Matthew Raphael JohnsonGUEST
De facto be recognizing.
Matthew Raphael JohnsonGUEST
Uh, so these guys were, are serious.
Matthew Raphael JohnsonGUEST
And chair of Gosplan, uh, the beginning of the central planning system.
Matthew Raphael JohnsonGUEST
This is just of, of, of Russia.
speaker_4HOST
They really are.
speaker_3HOST
When you look at attempts to remove market pricing and replace it with direct resource allocation like the Soviet Union's Gosplan system, It failed catastrophically.
speaker_4HOST
Yes.
speaker_4HOST
The failure of highly centralized command economies is rooted in what economists call the calculation problem.
Ed LucePANELIST
This is a bribe.
Ed LucePANELIST
Um, and I, I could not think of anything, even in the sort of furthest reaches of the Democratic socialists, um, of America, that compares with the sort of Gosplan implications of this bribe, because he said, um, "You will have to spend it in America." Now, you would need to quintuple the size of the IRS, or else just close off all trade, um, to ensure that these $5,000 checks, that'll doubtless have Trump's name on them, are spent in America.
Ed LucePANELIST
It was the most, really the only sort of e- example of socialism or Bolshevism, um, that came from a day that was telling us that Democrats are Bolsheviks.
Ed LucePANELIST
It was really...
Greg LeBlancHOST
And some people have said that if, you know, Leontief had the kind of computational capacity that exists today.
Greg LeBlancHOST
And if the central planners in Gosplan had had this kind of computational capacity, they could have maybe centrally planned an economy much more effectively than today.
Greg LeBlancHOST
Is there any validity
J. Doyne FarmerGUEST
to that? I think there's probably some truth, but too many things are happening.
Pete QuiñonesHOST
A massive war against the peasantry lay ahead, and Stalin could not afford to alienate any of his reliable allies, and probably thought that in this campaign against a disproportionately Slavic population, it would be better to rely on Jews than on Russians.
Pete QuiñonesHOST
He preserved the Russian majority in the Gosplan.
Pete QuiñonesHOST
The commanding heights of collectivization I'm sorry.
Pete QuiñonesHOST
He preserved the Jewish majority in the Gosplan.
Pete QuiñonesHOST
The commanding heights of collectivization and its theory included, of course, Larin.
Pete QuiñonesHOST
Lev Kritzman was director of the Agrarian Institute from 1928.
Pete QuiñonesHOST
As assistant to the president of the Gosplan in 1931 through 1933, he played a faithful role in the persecution of Kondratiev and Shayanov.
Pete QuiñonesHOST
Yakov Yakovlev-Epstein took charge of People's Commissariat of Agriculture in 1929.
LernerHOST
Let's really talk about that, because this is where the grand ideology meets brutal reality.
speaker_1HOST
So in the Soviet system, factories operated under Gosplan, the Central Economic Planning Committee.
LernerHOST
Right.
speaker_1HOST
Workers and factory managers were given these strict production quotas.
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