gwern comments on central planning is intractable (polynomial, but n is large) - Less Wrong
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Essay is highly recommended; I've started Red Plenty after reading it, and am a little disappointed it's fiction rather than a nonfiction treatment of linear optimization. :)
The author of the book Shalizi is discussing comments in the giant (154+) comment thread for Shalizi's essay, incidentally: http://crookedtimber.org/2012/05/30/in-soviet-union-optimization-problem-solves-you/comment-page-1/