Accumulation is an important factor in expanded socialist reproduction. The effectiveness of accumulation is a synoptic indicator that in large measure determines the structure and rates of development of the entire economic system.

In the report at the Ail-Union Scientific-Practical Conference, "Improving Developed Socialism and the Ideological Work of the Party in the Light of the Decisions of the June (1983) Plenum of the CPSU Central Committee," M. S. Gorbachev noted that "there is need for substantial improvement of...

The economic problems of the infrastructure are many and varied, and all of them are closely associated with the intensification of the Soviet economy. The development of the infrastructure promotes the acceleration of the circulation of material resources, the lowering of the expenditure of raw...

In the 60 years that have elapsed since the formation of the USSR, our nation's economy has been transformed into an intricate, highly developed complex that incorporates the economies of all union republics and that develops under a single state plan which coalesces the nation's interests with...

The intensification of the economy predetermines the need for the comprehensive utilization of the potential of the nation's productive fixed capital and for lowering the capital intensity of production. The text of Iu. V. Andropov's speech at the December (1983) Plenum of the CPSU Central...

Our country will enter the 1980s with a mighty economic and scientific-technical potential. Our attainments in economic and social development will permit us to tackle still weightier tasks. Fixed capital accounts for 64% of the nation's wealth. At the beginning of 1980 fixed capital amounted to...

The economic and scientific-technical might of the Soviet Union has grown continuously during the years of the Soviet five-year plans. Our country now has at its disposal a vast economic potential. L. I. Brezhnev noted: "Plants and mines, blast furnaces and machines, instruments and the latest...

Under present conditions of intensification of socialist expanded reproduction, the >u>time factor>/u> becomes increasingly important in the economic mechanism, in the planning and management of the economy, and in calculations of the effectiveness of social production and capital investments.

The improvement of the infrastructure, which is closely linked to the policy of economic intensification, is an important direction in national economic planning. Solving this problem will make it possible to use major reserves in social production and promote its effectiveness. The Twenty-sixth...

New methods have recently been developed for determining the economic effectiveness of production and capital investments. Among them are proposals that are based on the System of Optimal Functioning of the Economy (SOFE) concept, i.e., the optimal functioning of the socialist economy. These...