The practical implementation of measures outlined in the July (1979) decrees of the Central Committee of the CPSU and the USSR Council of Ministers is a major step on the road to the development of an economic mechanism that is consistent with the conditions in a mature socialist society.

Today there is no doubt that the decisive prerequisite and condition for the further development of the economy of the USSR is the improvement of the mechanism and methods of socialist management. It is specifically the main reserve for accelerating scientific-technical progress, radically...

The material embodiment of the radical economic reform requires that it be developed from the general conception to a comprehensive program of action. The character and depth of the transformations are connected with the reform's basic conceptual principles. The following are the most important...

When we examine current problems of economic science, we invariably look back. As A. I. Herzen said in his day: "The better we know the past, the more clearly we see the present. The more we become immersed in the meaning of the past, the deeper is our understanding of the sense of the future."...