Hotelling would be my guess.
[snip] Anyway, there was the old 1920s' Ramsey model of optimal saving (dealing with the kind of problem a hypothetical advanced communist society would face when planning their allocation of resources over time) and other inter-temporal exercises that had been conducted earlier in the century (I forgot the name of that guy in the 1930s who wrote a beautiful paper on optimal use of natural resources using Newton's variational calculus, do any of you remember?). [snip] ============== Harold Hotelling?
