Note from the editors of uVoprosy ekonomiki/u: The General Annual Meeting of the Department of Economics of the USSR Academy of Sciences was held on March 12, 1979. Academician N. Fedorenko, academician-secretary of the department, reported on the work performed by the department's scientific...

The decisions of the Twenty-sixth CPSU Congress and the November (1982) and June (1983) Plenums of the CPSU Central Committee indicated the basic directions in which the economic mechanism is to be improved. Specifically, it must be oriented toward maximizing the potential and advantages of the...

The planned introduction of advances of science and technology in the national economy requires improvement of the entire system of economic management and the consistent implementation of the party's economic strategy. Scientific and technical progress occupies a leading place in this process...

In recent years the Soviet Union has scored major successes in developing the most modern branches of industry, such as chemicals, electronics, and machine building. The 1964 plan has been successfully fulfilled. This year the national income, utilized for consumption and accumulation, will rise...

The economic reform being carried out in Soviet industry is of vast economic and political significance. It should make the production relations conform to the character and the scale of development of productive forces, make these relations adequate to the modern level of development of...

The resolution of the May (1958) plenary session of the Party Central Committee "On Accelerating the Development of the Chemical Industry and Especially the Production of Synthetic Materials and Articles Made From Them to Satisfy the Demands of the Population and the Needs of the National...

The approach to the analysis and planning of the socialist economy from the standpoint of optimality is becoming more and more widespread both in theoretical studies as well as in the solution of planning and economic problems at all levels of national economic planning. The application of...

The 1950's and 1960's are characterized by revolutionary advances in a number of branches of science. Atomic physics, chemistry, "space sciences," cybernetics and electronics - these are the acknowledged leaders in the "competition of the sciences." Mentioned among the future "favorites" are...

The changes in forms and methods of planning and management of the economy set forth by the September Plenum of the CPSU Central Committee have demanded a fundamentally new approach to the treatment of a number of economic categories. The greater economic independence of enterprises and the fact...