Introduction: Another "Grand Illusion" - Optimizing the Central Plan

Chapter One: To Command or to Understand? Planning Concepts and Economic Research in Communist Bulgaria

Chapter Two: Quantitative Economics in China. From Planned Economy to Socialist Market Economy

Chapter Three: Mathematical Economics and Central Planning. Economic Research in Czechoslovakia under Communism

Chapter Four: Theory and Political Economy of Central Planning in East Germany

Chapter Five: Mathematical Economics outside the Neoclassical Paradigm? Evolution of Planning Concepts in Hungary under Communism

Chapter 6: Between Rationality and Reality. Economics and Central Planning in Poland (1945-1989)

Chapter Seven: The Failure of Communist Planning: A Perspective from Romania

Chapter Eight: Communism = Soviet Power + Planning. Planning and Mathematical Economics in the Soviet Union

Chapter Nine: Mathematical Economics, Economic Modeling, and Planning in Yugoslavia

Conclusion: Rationality Found and Lost? In Search of a New Historical Narrative of Optimal Planning