The transition to chiefly intensive avenues of expanding social production is one of the main tasks in the present stage of development of the Soviet economy. The Twenty-Fourth Congress of the CPSU provided a detailed substantiation of the necessity for the all-round intensification of...

pIn the study of the mechanism of the operation of economiclaws, and in the qualitative and quantitative analysis of economicrelations and processes, the systems-structural approach isof immense importance./ppOf particular importance to the qualitative analysis of economic relations and...

Economics and the Public Purpose, a new book by the famous American economist J. Galbraith, was published in 1973. (1) It examines two questions: how should the U.S. economy be reorganized in order to avoid the serious social upheavals that threaten American capitalism, and what bourgeois...

In the last decade, the sphere of scientific activity in the USSR has expanded significantly. During this period, outlays on science have increased fourfold, and the number of scientific workers has increased threefold. The contribution made by scientific and planning organizations in raising...

In the recent literature there has been a large number of publications devoted to the essence and the content of the subject of the economics of science, to the particular features of the manifestation of economic laws in research and development, and to ascertaining the place of the economics...

In the last few years the scientific elaboration of problems of urbanization under socialism has been intensified. Geographers, demographers, economists, sociologists, and city planners are making their contribution to the investigation of this important problem which is a "border" problem for a...

The International Economic Association recently held a conference in the USSR for the first time. The conference was devoted to long-range planning and forecasting. The choice of the site of this scholarly forum was not by chance: more than fifty years ago the Soviet Union compiled the world's...

The important role of banking organs in the system of economic management and the task of further increasing the influence of these organs on the more complete mobilization of production reserves and the raising of the effectiveness of production require constant improvement in work to perfect...

The use of commodity -monetary relations in a socialist economy is one of the key problems in economic theory. In the very first days after the victory of the revolution, the necessity of resolving a number of practical problems - organization of commodity exchange, monetary circulation,...

The Directives of the Twenty-Fourth Congress of the CPSU on the Five-Year Plan for the Development of the USSR National Economy in 1971-1975 state that the main task of the five-year plan is to secure a significant rise in the material and cultural living standard of the people, based on high...