A new method has been introduced for calculating the profitability of industrial production that relates profit to the enterprise cost of production, less direct material expenditures.

The decisions of the Twenty-fifth Party Congress on the general improvement of the effectiveness of production in the Tenth Five-Year Plan and in subsequent periods and on the reliance on quality indicators require preeminently the harmonious efforts of all elements of the production apparatus....

Frontmatter -- Inhalt -- Vorwort zur deutschen Ausgabe -- Einleitung -- ERSTES KAPITEL Allgemeine Charakteristik der Wirtschaftsreform in der UdSSR -- ZWEITES KAPITEL Zur Optimalität der zentralen Planung -- DRITTES KAPITEL Zum Wirken des Wertgesetzes -- VIERTES KAPITEL Ökonomische Methoden...

The 20th Congress of the CPSU posed a number of big and important tasks in the concrete economics of industry. Our economic science has a special role to play in the accomplishment of these tasks. It must seriously tackle problems of simplifying the system of production management, improving...