Economic forecasting â an attempt to foresee a probable course of economic development âoccupies an important place among the new phenomena of the postwar evolution of state-monopoly capitalism in the United States and other industrially developed capitalist countries. The broad diffusion of...

Some of the central problems confronting the U. S. economy in their full acuteness at the beginning of the present decade were examined in our first article, which was printed in the June 1970 issue of this journal. The aggravation of problems relating to the rate of the reproductive process and...

The economic situation in the USA at the beginning of the 1970s is extremely complex and is fraught with serious collisions. It is probably the first time in the postwar years that the government and monopoly capital have been beset by such complex problems, by such an uncertain state of the...

In the first article the basic principles and methods of economic forecasting were considered. We pass on now to concrete forecasts of the prospects of development of the American economy which are derived from these methodological principles. Let us begin with the estimates given by American...

In our day, problems pertaining to the methodology of economic forecasting have acquired extremely great importance. This is connected, first, with work on long-range forecasts of the development of the national economy of the USSR (a number of scientific research institutions are already...