The use of economic-mathematical methods and computer equipment in the planning and management of the national economy has left the experimentation stage. At present economic -mathematical methods are already being used in elaborating plans for the development of the individual branches, and the...

The development of the scientific-technical revolution is inseparably linked to the progressive increase in the utilization of mineral resources. Between 1960 and 1975 the extraction of oil in the USSR (including gas condensate) increased 3.3 times; gas - 6.3 times; iron ore â 2.2 times; and...

We regard the current scientific-technical revolution [STR] as a definite stage of scientific-technical progress that accompanies the development of mankind. It is a natural result of the profound dialectical contradictions that arose in the course of development of large-scale machine...

The Great October Socialist Revolution opened the widest possibilities for the really scientific development of statistics. In the Soviet Union, statistics became one of the most important tools of socialist construction, state management and planned guidance of the economy. For the first time...

The effective utilization of fixed assets exerts an even greater influence on the rate of economic reproduction and requires constant improvement in the forms and methods of planning and management. This fact of our economic reality is a new major aspect of the period of the comprehensive...

The Institute for the Economics and Organization of Industrial Production at the Siberian Branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences, in collaboration with the Academy's Institute of World Economics and International Relations, is conducting a research program aimed especially at the elaboration of...

The importance of production concentration under present conditions was emphasized at the Twenty-fifth Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union: "The lack of concentration leads to needless losses and impedes the resolution of large-scale problems." The "Basic Directions of...

1. In [1] we considered a one-product model of the economy and used it to calculate the norm of effectiveness. A more specific analysis may investigate the behavior of a number of industries and products. In the present paper, retaining the macroeconomic character of the model, we introduce two...

The size of the urban population in our nation has reached 121.7 million persons and now constitutes 54% of the total population; in 1926, only 26.3 million persons, i.e., 18% of the total population of the USSR, lived in cities.

Organization of work is one of the basic problems of the socialist economy. The Communist Party in all stages of development of the Soviet economy attached great importance to questions of organization of work. But in the Soviet scientific literature not enough attention was alloted to the...