Hedley, George. Linear Algebra (for Economists) (Lineinaya algebra). 1966. In Russian.

Hedley, George. Linear Algebra (for Economists) (Lineinaya algebra). 1966. In Russian.

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Hedley, George. Linear Algebra (for Economists) (Lineinaya algebra). 1966. In Russian.
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Hedley, George. Linear Algebra (for Economists) (Lineinaya algebra). 1966. In Russian.

$40.00

Хедли, Дж. Линейная алгебра (для экономистов) / перевод с английского Ю. И. Соркина и А. А. Дмитриева.
Москва : Издательство «Высшая школа», 1966. 206 страниц ; увеличенный формат.
Твердый издательский переплет. Тираж 38 000 экземпляров.
Переплет очень хороший: ткань чистая, минимальная потертость на верхнем крае корешка. Блок отличный: бумага чистая, шитье крепкое, текст полный.
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Hedley, George. Linear Algebra (for Economists) / translated from the English by Yu. I. Sorkin and A. A. Dmitriev.
Moscow : Vysshaya Shkola Publishing House, 1966. 206 pp. ; increased format.
Hardcover. Print run of 38,000 copies.
Binding very good: cloth clean, minimal wear at the top edge of the spine. Text block fine: paper clean, sewing firm, text complete throughout.

A Soviet translation of an American operations-research textbook whose editorial apparatus turns the book into a small artifact of Cold War economic polemics. George Hadley's original (Addison-Wesley, 1961) presented linear algebra for an audience of economists and social scientists, with worked applications to input-output analysis. The Soviet publisher's foreword, printed ahead of the translated text, praises the book's mathematical exposition while sharply criticizing its economic content, objecting in particular to its favorable treatment of the input-output model developed by Wassily Leontief, described in the preface simply as a Russian emigre and Harvard professor. The Soviet editors argue that Leontief's model, while mathematically borrowing the interbranch balance methods first developed in Soviet planning practice for the 1925 five-year plan, deliberately obscures the Marxist category of surplus labor as the true source of profit. The irony is considerable: seven years after this edition appeared, Leontief received the 1973 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for the very input-output analysis the Soviet preface dismisses as ideologically evasive. The book thus survives as a rare primary document showing how even a routine translated mathematics textbook could become a vehicle for explicit ideological commentary during the Soviet period, offering historians of economics and of Cold War science a concrete example of how Western economic mathematics was received and reframed for Soviet readers.

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