In a socialist society, the most important proportions in expanded reproduction and in the formation and distribution of gross (national) income are centrally regulated. In connection with the substantiation of optimal proportions in the distribution of national income, it is not by chance that...

The enormous, ever-increasing scale of socialist construction in the USSR and the expansion and increasing complexity of interbranch and interregional relationships urgently require all possible improvement and perfecting of methods of economic analysis and national economic planning. The...

The targets of the national economic plan are designed topromote the high rate of our country's economic developmentand the steady rise in the effectiveness of social production. In order to meet these targets it will be necessary to acceleratethe practical introduction of scientifically...

The effectiveness of social production forms in three stages: in the planning of its development, in the implementation of construction plans, and in the functioning of enterprises. In the first stage the decisive parameters of production are determined: the volume of production in accordance...

A meeting of Soviet and American economists took place in the USA in April 1975. The Soviet delegation was made up of: T. S. Khachaturov, Academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences; corresponding members of the USSR Academy of Sciences O. T. Bogomolov and S. S. Shatalin; doctors of economic...

Before discussing the essence and problems of policy in the realm of demography, we must explain precisely what we mean by these words. The great French scholar Descartes said: "Define the meaning of words and you will rid the world of half its confusion."

Between the Urals in the west and the Sea of Okhotsk in the east there is an enormous zone (3 million square kilometers) that is little developed but is rich in natural resources. The northern boundary of this zone coincides approximately with the northern boundary of forests. The southern...

USSR Gosplan has adopted a decree on improving the elaboration of guidelines [umetodicheskie ukazaniia/u] for planning the development of the national economy and its individual branches. This decree instructs USSR Gosplan divisions and scientific research institutes attached to USSR Gosplan,...

The ever-growing need of the national economy for manpower, especially in the service sphere, which is developing at an accelerated rate, and a certain scarcity in the nation's labor resources advance the need to search for additional reserves for drawing the able-bodied population into social...

The highly developed system of reciprocal collaboration of COMECON member nations, especially under the conditions of their economic integration, has as its economic result the steady expansion of the sphere of socialist cooperation of labor. This process, which acquired additional impetus...