The problem of assessing the transport factor in the location of production is attracting the attention of numerous researchers. At the same time, not all of the problems associated with the scientifically substantiated assessment of the transport factor in the location of production have as yet...

One of the most important economic targets of the current five-year plan is to satisfy the growing effective demand of the population for foodstuffs, industrial commodities, and services. The Directives of the Twenty-Fourth Congress of the CPSU call for the further expansion of consumer goods...

Nineteenth century bourgeois economists, as we know, devoted particular attention to the development of three variants of the nonlabor theory of value: the theory of productivity of "production factors" (the most prominent representative of which was the French economist J. B. Say), the theory...

Those who have studied Marxist political economy know of the existence of one very difficult and still not entirely resolved problem which in its complexity recalls the famous problem in the past of squaring the circle. The question under discussion was formulated in mathematical terms at the...

The rapid development of our country in the years that have elapsed since the October Revolution was promoted by the availability of rich natural resources -minerals, fertile soil, forests, water, etc. Owing to the advantages of the socialist system and the initiative and energy of the Soviet...

The threat of the depletion and degradation of the resources of our planet's biosphere as a result of various types of human activity poses the task of controlling the environment as one of the most urgent and grandiose problems in the modern revolution in science and technology. A particular...

The comprehensive program of socialist economic integration presupposes the further deepening and improvement of economic, scientific, and technical cooperation among COMECON member nations. One of the useful forms of this cooperation has become the familiarization of specialists of the...

The growing influence of foreign economic relations on the reproduction processes, on effectiveness, and on other phenomena in national economies is today one of the important trends in the economic life of the world. This trend is primarily based on quantitative and qualitative changes in...

Agricultural production is a vitally important branch of the national economy. The growth rate of the socialist economy and the improvement of the material well-being of the Soviet people depend on the development of agricultural production. "Consider one of the most important targets of the new...

Some economists question the stimulating effect and expediency of the further use of capital charges in the system of economic accountability. (>u>1>/u>) At the same time, they assess its effectiveness on the basis of the dynamics of the output-capital ratio.