Problems Pertaining to the Study and Evaluation of Public Demand

In recent years, the study of consumption and demand has undergone extensive development in our nation. Like many other new scientific directions, this study is based on sciences already in existence: political economy, branch economic sciences, in particular, the economics of trade and the economics of branches producing consumer goods, statistics, economic cybernetics, and even psychology, biology, and medicine. For this reason it is natural that studies of the problems of consumption and demand are now being conducted by specialists in various branches of knowledge and are accordingly taking various directions: economic, statisticalmathematical, and medical-biological. However, irrespective of all this, the total scientific effort is directed toward the solution of a single common problem: determination of quantitative parameters of the volume and structure of consumption, and determination of the volume and structure of demand and their evaluation in the future.