The solution of large optimal planning and control problems requires very cumbersome computational operations that are based on a very large body of initial data and that require the large volume of data processing entailed in the application of modern mathematical methods. One encounters a...

The problem of improving planning and management has acquired decisive importance for increasing the effectiveness of social production. This is evidenced, in particular, by the attention that was devoted to this problem at the Twenty-Fourth Congress of the CPSU. It can be resolved only on the...

The more rational utilization of manpower is one of the prerequisites to achieving high rates of development in social production, to increasing the effectiveness of social production, and to improving the well-being of the working people. The Twenty-Fourth Congress of the CPSU devoted much...

The conquest of political power by the working people and the establishment of the social ownership of the basic means of production created the need for and predetermined the possibility for planning the national economy. In this connection, corresponding cadres of specialists became necessary.

Of late, a number of articles pertaining to problems in the economic evaluation of natural resources have been published in uVoprosy ekonomiki/u. A still greater number of articles reaching the editors could not be published owing to the lack of space and, with the consent of the authors, the...

Under socialism each agricultural enterprise has a monopoly on land as an economic object. Since the quantity of the best land is limited, the collective and state farms using this land obtain income in the form of differential rent in excess of conventional income. But as we know, land is the...

The vast, continuously growing scale of social production and the expansion and growing complexity of interbranch relations in the national economy of the USSR require constant improvement in the techniques of economic analysis and planning. In the solution of these problems, an important role...

The present stage in the building of communism is characterized by the ever-increasing complexity of relationships and the deepening interaction between the scientific-technological, production-economic, and social aspects and factors of social progress. In this regard questions pertaining both...

Scientific and technical progress is exerting a more and more profound influence on the economic structure of the national economy and on the productivity of social labor.

The reorganization of industrial and construction management accomplished in conformity with the decisions of the February (1957) Plenum of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the U.S.S.R. and the Seventh Session of the Supreme Soviet of the U.S.S.R., created conditions for further...