(Information Policy) Benjamin Peters - How Not to Network a Nation_ The Uneasy History of the Soviet Internet-The MIT Press (2016) by Benjamin Peters

Author:Benjamin Peters
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2020-05-29T00:00:00+00:00

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Figure 4.15

Central Economic Mathematical Institute in Moscow, with Mobius strip statue, 2008.

research on the methodology of economic analysis and organization of new opera-tional systems, are replaced by work on economic projects, a much less innovative and more conventional activity.61

In the same years, Fedorenko’s CEMI had drifted from the OGAS Project and grew to nearly forty times the size of Nemchinov’s original laboratory. At the beginning of the 1960s, the average age of its full-time faculty was about twenty-six years old; ten years later in 1973, when the institute sur-passed one thousand employees, the average age tallied in at thirty-four.62 According to Gavrilets, a lifelong faculty member at CEMI, the institute began as a lively and energetic place for critical and enthusiastic young economic researchers.63 Although an increase of eight years in the aver-age age of staff members over a decade probably reflects natural aging, CEMI’s workforce was still relatively young and energetic and conditioned to believe they had the support to do anything. As a result, CEMI was not constrained by any formal agreements, as OGAS campaigners might have sometimes wished, to pursue OGAS and its associated network projects.

It might be that CEMI’s eventual abandonment of the OGAS Project contributed to the failure of the USSR to reform its economic situation.

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