There are those who believe that the transition to a market economy must be made in such a way and at such a tempo as will preclude the appearance of even a minuscule number of the unemployed. On the other hand, the idea that a rapid transition to a market will inevitably lead to a very high...

bONS:/b Aleksandr Nikolaevich, during the days of August 1991âwhich are already historyâyou became head of the RSFSR Ministry of Labor and Employment, a ministry upon which the republic's economic reform will largely depend. Is this fact taken into account? Will the ministry's functions...

The reform of prices has by virtue of its political and social significance become the subject of wide discussion. And even though the State Committee for Prices has not yet publicized its draft of the reform, the editors of newspapers and journals (iLG/i is no exception) have been deluged with...

Judging by newspaper publications in the last year and a half, probably no economic process has developed as stormily and rapidly as the shadow economy. The dynamics of the process is truly stunning. In August 1988 the newspaper iTrud/i [Labor] assessed it at 70-90 billion rubles. In spring of...

The articles by Academician T. I. Zaslavskaia and S. S. Shatalin, Corresponding Member of the USSR Academy of Sciences (iKommunist/i, 1986, nos. 13-14)â  devoted a prominent place to the problem of improving the system of distribution, which will have a most direct bearing on the realization...