Vasily Nemchinov | |
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Василий Немчинов | |
Born | Vasily Sergeyevich Nemchinov (1894-01-14)14 January 1894 Grabovo, Penzensky Uyezd, Penza Governorate, Russian Empire |
Died | 5 November 1964(1964-11-05) (aged 70) Moscow, Soviet Union |
Nationality | Russian |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Economics, mathematics |
Institutions | Central 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
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
- "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.
Honors
- Three Orders of Lenin (1939, 1946, 1964)
- Two Orders of the Red Banner of Labour (1940, 1944)
- Order of the Red Star (1945)
- Stalin Prize (1946)
- Honorary member of the Royal Statistical Society (1961)
- Lenin Prize (1965, posthumously)
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Categories:- 1894 births
- 1964 deaths
- 20th-century Russian economists
- People from Penza Oblast
- Academicians of the Byelorussian SSR Academy of Sciences
- Academicians of the VASKhNIL
- Full Members of the USSR Academy of Sciences
- Recipients of the Lenin Prize
- Recipients of the Order of Lenin
- Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour
- Recipients of the Order of the Red Star
- Recipients of the Stalin Prize
- Russian mathematicians
- Russian statisticians
- Soviet economists
- Soviet mathematicians
- Burials at Novodevichy Cemetery
- Russian scientists