As the transformed form of part of the surplus product, profit is a value category whose functioning in a socialist society is determined by commodity-monetary relations. As the utilization of these relations in management practice becomes more extensive, the role of profit as a resultative...

The Directives of the Twenty-Fourth Congress of the CPSU on the Five-Year Plan for the Development of the USSR National Economy for 1971-1975 indicate the need to further improve the nationwide system of material-technical supply and wholesale prices on industrial products.

The rate of economic growth is a major problem of the socialist countries' economy. On this rate depend the period of time to achieve their socialist and communist transformations, as well as the outcome of their economic competition with the advanced capitalist countries. The development rates...

The implementation of the decisions of the Twenty-fifth Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union is presently the uppermost task in the activity of our Party and of the Soviet people. Performance tallies for the first two years of the Tenth Five-Year Plan fully confirm the...

The study of models of optimal planning is extremely important, not only for its own sake but also because it enables us to determine an efficient approach to quantitative and, to a certain extent, to qualitative study of both general and specialized problems of the socialist economy, the very...

The Party's policy is aimed at bringing the working class, the collective farm peasantry, and the intelligentsia closer together and at gradually overcoming significant differences between town and country - as was emphasized at the Twenty-Fourth Congress of the CPSU. At the present stage the...

The possibility of broad collaboration between countries with different socioeconomic systems was demonstrated by V. I. Lenin, who believed that with increasing internationalization of the world economy the degree of participation of socialist countries in the worldwide division of labor would...

Socialism creates optimum conditions for the most rational use of manpower, society's prime productive resource. For the first time in history it has become possible to distribute the labor force in a planned manner among the different spheres of production, branches of economy and economic...

Under the conditions of socialist economic integration, joint planning is the basic method of improving economic collaboration and intensifying the socialist division of labor. First and foremost, joint planning concerns the central planning organs, their highest organs of government branch...

Nature conservation occupies an important place among the complex of measures elaborated by the Twenty-fifth Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union with an eye to increasing the effectiveness of social production. Suffice it to say that the state allocated 11 billion rubles for...