[Association copy] Ekonomicheskii raschet nailuchshego ispolzovaniia resursov [The Best Uses of Economic Resources]

Moskva: AN SSSR, 1959.
First edition. Limited to 3.000 copies.

The book signed and inscribed to Stanislav Gustavovich Strumilin (1877-1974) - government official and economist, author of "Strumilin index", a measure of labor productivity.

L. Kantorovich (1912-1986) – prominent Russian
mathematician and economist. He shared Prize in
Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel with T.
Koopmans in 1975 "for their contributions to the theory
of optimum allocation of resources". In this work, L.
Kantorovich developed his method of linear programming
he first made public in 1939. L. Kantorovich started as
great mathematician but interested in economics since
1939. He worked a lot and wrote a lot through wartime
for economics. Amongst other works, he wrote this book in 1942.
Kantorovich's conclusions made about the role of prices in planned economy were very dangerous for his further
academic career and possibly life in Stalin era. So he
returned to study math after WWII was finished. Then he
worked in Soviet nuclear project. After Stalin's death, the
role of economy in Russia was recognized more important than earlier. In 1958 Kantorovich founded first faculty for mathematical economics in Russia and in 1959 he published this work for the first time. It is just for this
work L. Kantorovich became Nobel laureate.