Vasily Sergeyevich Nemchinov (Russian: Василий Cергеевич Немчинов; 14 January 1894, Grabovo – 5 November 1964, Moscow) was a Soviet and Russian economist and mathematician. Nemchinov is credited with introducing mathematical methods into Soviet economics, thus creating a scientific basis for central planning.

Biography

Nemchinov was born in Grabovo. He attended secondary school in Chelyabinsk until 1913. He then studied at the economics department of the Moscow Institute of Commerce (Russian: Московский коммерческий институт). After graduation in 1917 he began to work as an economist and statistician for the local government in the Chelyabinsk Oblast.

Works

• "On the Statistical Study of Rural Class Stratification", 1926, Bulleting of Urals Regional Statistical Admin.
• "Experience from the Classification of Peasant Households", Vestnik statistiki.
• The Use of Mathematics in Economics, 3 volumes, 1959-65.
• Methods and Models of Mathematical Economics, 1967-9.
• Selected Works, 1967-9.

Honors

• Three Orders of Lenin (1939, 1946, 1964)
• Two Orders of the Red Banner of Labour (1940, 1944)
• Order of the Red Star (1945)
• Stalin Prize (1946)
• Honorary member of the Royal Statistical Society (1961)
• Lenin Prize (1965, posthumously)

External links

• Biography at the Central Economic Mathematical Institute
• Information about his works