The further improvement of the people's well-being is the basic objective of the party's economic strategy in the 1980s. Comrade L. I. Brezhnev stated in the Report of the Central Committee of the CPSU to the Twenty-sixth Party Congress: "The expansion of production and improvement of the...

Economic research on the enhancement of the people's well-being to date has been primarily confined to the consumption of material goods, the dynamics and composition of the population's incomes, and the development of branches of the service sphere. At the same time, such studies have not...