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The technique of linear programming has a number of formal similarities with input-output analysis. However, its basic philosophy is quite different. The input-output approach is concerned with consistency; linear programming with optimisation.
In six months over 6000 transport employees and workers learned linear programming. The masses sang in glory: linear programming, what a treasure.1
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Dasgupta, A.K. (1974). Linear Programming. In: Economic Theory and the Developing Countries. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-86195-8_8
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