A sharp increase in the scope and in the complexity of the production relationships of socialist construction points insistently to the problem of a radical improvement in the methods of planning and economic calculation.

The raising of the effectiveness of production is associated with the solution of a number of important and difficult problems relating to securing the most expedient proportions between and within branches of the national economy. In large measure the rate of economic growth and the opportunity...

As noted in the decisions of the Twenty-fifty Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU), the acceleration of the rate of scientific-technical progress requires the further development of scientific research, the broad incorporation of its findings in the national economy, and...

Even if uEconomic Methods and the Effectiveness of Production/u had been published anonymously, the book would be important and useful for those interested in current Soviet economic processes. It provides an unusual and happy amalgam of descriptive information as well as a general discussion of...

The Tadjik economic region possesses great deposits of useful minerals and metals. Before the establishment of the Economic Councils, prospecting on the territory of this Republic was carried on by one hundred different parties and expeditions, subordinated to eight different ministries. This...

The discussion of planning problems in the developing countries is very timely. While our literature and the Marxist literature of other countries contain considerable weighty research on capitalist programming, problems pertaining to planning in the developing countries have enjoyed much less...

In order to implement the decisions of the Twenty-fifth Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, our nation's working people are earnestly endeavoring to make the Tenth Five-Year Plan a five-year plan of effectiveness and quality. In the present stage of development of the Soviet...

The development of the Soviet economy on the basis of unified national economic plans of the Soviet government has always been subordinated to the main task: the formation of a way of life in which the ideals of communism would find their fullest embodiment. Of course, in addition to a number of...

The decisions of the Twenty-Fourth Congress of the CPSU set the target of securing a significant increase in the effectiveness of social production during the Ninth Five-Year Plan. In this regard a greater part is played by higher education as one of the qualitative factors underlying the...

One of the important economic tasks confronting territorial planning is that of determining the avenues and methods of the rational location of the productive forces in the immediate and extended future. Internal factors influencing the regional development of the nation's economy and its...