Koopmans, Dantzig, and the Wartime Origins of Activity Analysis.
In the introduction to Activity Analysis of Production and Allocation (Cowles Monograph No. 13), Tjalling C. Koopmans recalled that he developed the model of his "Optimal Utilization of the Transportation System" (in the proceedings of 1947 International Statistical Congress, which were reissued as...
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