Oskar Lange

1904 - 1965

Country of citizenship: Poland, United States

Languages spoken, written or signed: Polish

Occupation: economist, politician, diplomat, professor, mathematician

Award received: Order of the Builders of People's Poland, Commander of the Order of Polonia Restituta, Fellow of the Econometric Society, Medal of the 10th Anniversary of People's Poland, doctor honoris causa from the University of Dijon

Position held: ambassador of Poland to the United States, Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Member of the Sejm of the Polish People's Republic, rector

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Oskar Ryszard Lange (Polish: [ˈlanɡɛ]; 27 July 1904 – 2 October 1965) was a Polish economist and diplomat. He is best known for advocating the use of market pricing tools in socialist systems and providing a model of market socialism. He responded to the economic calculation problem proposed by Ludwig von Mises and Friedrich Hayek by claiming that managers in a centrally-planned economy would be able to monitor supply and demand through increases and declines in inventories of goods, and advocated the nationalization of major industries. During his stay in the United States, Lange was an academic teacher and researcher in mathematical economics. Later in socialist Poland, he was a member of the Central Committee of the Polish United Workers' Party. Source: Wikipedia (en)