In solving the tasks of building communism in our country, the nonproductive sphere occupies a significant place, and its importance is duly increasing. This law is confirmed by the practice of building communism. The nonproductive sphere is steadily expanding. Whereas in 1940 the number of...

The enormous scale and profound interrelations of modern socialist production make the management of production more and more complex and important and require the continuous raising of its scientific level. This circumstance dictates the need for continuous progress and for the rapid...

In conformity with the resolution of the Council of Ministers of the U.S.S.R., December 25, 1956, "On Norms of Amortization, Deductions and Revaluation of Basic Funds," the State Planning Commission of the U.S.S.R. and the Central Statistical Administration of the U.S.S.R. Council of Ministers...

Group "B" of industry, the branches of which produce the bulk of food and nonfood commodities, including the most important of them, plays a key role in increasing public consumption. The highest share in the overall volume of consumption is made up of commodities that are acquired by the...

The elaboration of the Comprehensive Program of Economic Integration of COMECON Countries has had immense methodological and practical importance for the consistent extension of the socialist principles of planned economic management to the sphere of their mutual collaboration. The basic tenet...

The rational use of labor resources is a key factor in the growth of the country's economic potential. In the process of formulating the national economic plan, especially in long-term planning, the demographic composition of labor resources exerts a certain influence on its basic parameters. In...

The Twenty-fifth Congress of the CPSU noted: "Soviet scientists must not lose sight of environmental and population problems that have become increasingly acute of late. The improvement of socialist natural resource utilization and the elaboration of an effective demographic policy are an...

Thirty-five years ago, Leonid Vital'evich Kantorovich's book >u>Mathematical Methods in the Organization and Planning of Production>/u> (Leningrad State University Press, 1939) was published and opened up the new era in the use of mathematical methods for the organization and planning of production.

The editors have received a number of comments on V. Kollontai's article on planning problems in the developing countries (see 1969, No. 7). In this issue, we hear from G. Smirnov (African Institute), L. Artsishevskii (Economics Institute of the USSR Gosplan), and I. Aleshina (Leningrad...

The more active use of prices in the planned management of the economy has increased the need for the interdependence between price formation and national economic planning in its physical and value forms. For a long time, prices were regarded as something formal, while in planning the...