Stanislav Strumilin

Stanislav Gustavovich Strumilin (29 january, 1877- 25 january, 1974) was a Soviet economist who founded the "Strumilin index" concerning labor productivity. He developed the "norm" coefficient relating to the "investment activity" analysis of the "Soviet type planned economy". He was involved in the modelling of the Soviet type planned economy, "five year plans" and the "calculation of national income" in the Soviet Union after the October Revolution.

Strumilin's educational background is in the science of statistics.

Until 1917 he worked as a socialist activist. After the October Revolution he worked on setting up the Soviet planned economy while he was appointed to a professorship on economics at the Moscow State University. In 1931 he became a member of the Soviet Academy of Sciences.

Works

• "bogatsvo i trud" (Wealth and Labor-1905)
• "problemikiy ekonomikiy truda" (Problems of the Economics of Labor-1925)
• "otcherkiy sovetskoy ekonomikiy" (Essays on the Soviet Economy-1928)
• "promiyshlenniy perevorot v rossiy" (The Industrial Revolution in Russia-1944)
• "The Time Factor in Capital Investment Projects" (published in 1946 in soviet union, in 1951 published in English by international economic association)
• "Istoriya chernoi metalurgii v sssr” (the history of metalurgical industry in USSR-1954)

References

• http://econc10.bu.edu/economic_systems/Theory/Marxism/Soviet/strumilin.htm
• http://cepa.newschool.edu/het/schools/soviet.htm