The "Basic Directions of Development of the USSR National Economy in 1976-80," confirmed by the Twenty-fifth Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU), posed the task of securing the more complete satisfaction of the population's demand for consumer goods. This holds great...

The significance of problems associated with the functioning of the socialist market takes on special meaning under the conditions of the economic reform, when so much importance is attached to the sale of goods produced. This obliges us not only to intensify the purely empirical analysis of the...

Recently, research on forecasting the demand of the population has become appreciably more active. A number of research collectives are now concerning themselves with these problems. Economic-mathematical models have been elaborated and are being used to make forecast calculations of the...

The mounting influence of scientific-technical progress on the personal consumption sphere places a number of new important problems before national economic planning. One of them is the elaboration and further improvement of methods for forecasting the population's demand. Such forecasts hold...

The comprehensive study of social needs and consumer demand is one of the important directions in further raising the scientific level of planning. Of particular importance in this area of research is the elaboration and construction of scientifically substantiated forecasts of the demand of the...

As the Directives of the 24th Congress of the CPSU emphasize, one of the key tasks in the planned management of the national economy is that of further improving the system and methods of management and planning. A substantial part in the performance of this task must be played by scientifically...

An important place in the system for the planned management of socialist social production is occupied by the control of the sphere of personal consumption, particularly of processes entailed in the shaping and development of effective demand. The improvement of the forms and methods of...

One of the most important economic targets of the current five-year plan is to satisfy the growing effective demand of the population for foodstuffs, industrial commodities, and services. The Directives of the Twenty-Fourth Congress of the CPSU call for the further expansion of consumer goods...

Accelerated technical progress, which has touched many branches in the USSR national economy, has made possible a substantial increase in consumer goods production. The monetary income of the population has also increased considerably, and this factor has created the necessary material base for...

Improving the well-being of the working people and bringing about the more complete satisfaction of the population's needs are the main guideposts of the economic policy of the Soviet state in the Tenth Five-Year Plan and in the extended future. Of particular importance in this connection is the...