The conversion to the new methods of production management is indissolubly connected with perfecting the practice of planned price formation. The previous prices were conditioned by excessive centralized regulation of the productive activity of enterprises, and therefore they do not correspond...

The article criticizes neoclassical equilibrium theory, claiming that it is unable to explain crisis phenomena in the modern economy. The author also criticizes Russian government policy and suggests using Keynesian ideas as a theoretical basis for economic policy as well as switching attention...

The problem of combining centralized planning with economic initiative, with a creative approach by the working masses to the organization of planning and the fulfillment of plans, is a central part of the many-sided effort to improve the economic mechanism. The July 12, 1979, decree of the...

When the mountain in the well-known legend does not come to Mohammed, Mohammed goes to the mountain. Presently we are in approximately the same situation. The market is not coming to us, but the crisis is not going away. Hence we ourselves must act. But we are gripped by the idea that the market...

The formula of democratic socialism has become part of our everyday vocabulary. But we are not yet aware of its ideological content and logic, which are well known in the West, nor have we coordinated them with the new conception of socialism that is talcing shape. The present article attempts...

Leasing is recognized in our country as one of the basic directions of modernization of economic relations and of conveying internal dynamism to them. An edict of the Presidium of the USSR Supreme Soviet has been adopted and Fundamental Principles of Legislation on Leasing Relations are being...

Why is our country, which has 602.3 million hectares of agricultural land, 226 million hectares of arable land, the world's finest black earth i[chernozem],/i and other agricultural wealth, unable to feed itself "according to its needs"? Why does it not have enough food in good and bad harvest...

For many decades, the direct or indirect rejection of objective variability and alternative paths of socioeconomic development in general and of socialism in particular has been by no means the last feature of our prevailing ideology. As an expression of extreme ideological intolerance, it has...

It would seem to be very premature to conclude that the agrarian reform has been a success. I would even go so far as to say that the initial stage of the reform has failed in terms of both deadlines and substance. Not only has the reform program not been actively supported by the farmers...

uBasic Features of and the Necessity for the Comprehensive Industrialization of Agricultural Production/u The Twenty-fourth Party Congress emphasized that the approach to the solution of problems relating to the development of agricultural production, elaborated by the March (1965) Plenum of the...