Some of the central problems confronting the U. S. economy in their full acuteness at the beginning of the present decade were examined in our first article, which was printed in the June 1970 issue of this journal. The aggravation of problems relating to the rate of the reproductive process and...

The problem of economic effectiveness under socialism has been studied in the greatest detail with respect to the sphere of capital investment and significant results were realized in this area. Following the Twenty-Fourth Party Congress there was an increase in the study of the economic...

In recent years a number of works devoted to the study of economic proportions and to the analysis of the structure of the Soviet economy have been published in our economic literature. Study of these problems is very important in connection with raising the scientific level of planning and with...

The relationship between the population's effective demand and the supply of consumer goods is one of the most important national economic proportions. This relationship is formed in the process of circulation, but it is determined by trends and proportions in the area of production,...

The growing importance of the public service sphere is a characteristic feature in the present stage of development of the Soviet economy. Branches serving the public are attracting an ever-increasing percentage of the manpower resources, and their fixed capital is growing at a rapid rate. Paid...

This paper, by a student at Moscow State University, was awarded first prize in the All-Union Scientific Students' Competitionon Problems in the Social Sciences, in the History ofthe All-Union Leninist Komsomol, and in the International YouthMovement, which was dedicated to the fiftieth...

In the course of development and intensification of socialist economic integration, the collaboration of COMECON member nations is encompassing more and more new, important spheres. In keeping with the decisions of the Twenty-Seventh Session of COMECON (1973), considerable expansion is envisaged...

Nonagricultural land refers to the land of cities and urban-type settlements, as well as of industry, transport, health resorts, etc. All in all it occupies approximately 60 million hectares, or 2.7% of the nation's territory. However, the share of individual types of nonagricultural land is...

A meeting of the Academic Council of the Scientific Research Finance Institute of the USSR Ministry of Finance devoted to problems in the economic substantiation of interest rates and to the determination of the role and place of interest rates in the system of economic incentives was held....