Speaking of that I recommend watching Pandora&#x27;s Box documentary. It is fun and pretty well made (although the quality on youtube is rather low).<p>Here is where they start talking about Gosplan -- the central economic planning department:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?feature=player_detailpage&amp;v=h3gwyHNo7MI#t=1493" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?feature=player_detailpage&amp;v=h3...</a><p>It is funny to hear how they tried to control things. At some point during Stalin&#x27;s time they planned how many people to arrest and where. No matter if they were guilty or not. The it talks how they tried to modulate various controls -- they measured success by amount of raw material consumed, so all of the sudden they ended up with oversized couches, and trains were being run for thousands of miles empty just to burn the fuel so everyone can get a bonus during the years&#x27; end. Then they started to fix prices for everything. That ended in disaster of course and so on.<p>Then have to like the taxi driver driving past Gosplan and saying &quot;how they hell do they come with such ridiculous plans&quot;.<p>EDIT: They also mention Victor Glushkov, the father of Soviet Cybernetics. Here is a documentary about him as well. It is putting it in good light as if Soviet Cybernetics used in planning would be successful. It is a propaganda film. But it is fun to watch:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=lMS1hBhV2-4" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=lMS1hBhV2-4</a><p>He talked about paper-less office and economy back in the 60s.