In the first installment of a three part series, Ben speaks to Jack Chadwick about the basic principles of economic planning and how it was implemented in the Soviet Union. In parts two and three we will take a look at Allende's Chile, modern day China, and discuss Evgeny Morozov's recent article in the New Left Review: 'Digital Socialism?: The Calculation Debate in the Age of Big Data'.  

Jack is a postgraduate student at Cambridge University, researching the economic policies of the USSR in the Brezhnev period. He is also currently the Chair of Cambridge University Labour Club.