Economists have always used numerical examples to illustrate or confirm various principles. Some of these examples have been generalized and transformed into numerical models used to make substantive qualitative analyses. For example, the uTableau économique/u by the physiocrat economist F....

The Twenty-sixth CPSU Congress posed the task of subordinating the development of science and technology to the realization of the economic and social tasks of Soviet society, to accelerating the conversion of the economy to the path of intensive development, and to increasing the effectiveness...

On the basis of many years of experience in the management of the socialist economy of the USSR and in scientific planning of the economy, particularly the experience of the work of supply agencies, it is possible to draw general conclusions concerning ways and means of realizing the advantages...

Scientific and technical progress is the basic means for further increasing the effectiveness of social production in the age of developed socialism. The level of science, the significance of new scientific and technical developments and inventions, and the rate of their adoption in production...

Academician L. V. Kantorovich, distinguished Soviet scientist and head of the task force for economic-mathematical methods and operations research at the Institute for the Management of the National Economy, and Professor T. Koopmans, an American specialist in mathematical economics, were...

The return to the branch management of industry and its elevation to a new level create conditions favorable to the scientifically substantiated resolution of the problem of branch development as a whole in all its aspects. In this area considerable use must be made of mathematical methods and...

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 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...

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.