The implementation of the party's strategy on the nation's economic development, which is directed toward increasing effectiveness and improving quality in accordance with the decisions of the Twenty-sixth Congress of the CPSU, requires the restructuring of the management of the economy at all...

The Basic Directions of Development of the USSR National Economy for 1976-80, ratified by the Twenty-fifth Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, envisage "the implementation of measures for the further improvement of wholesale prices and rates." (u1/u) The existing system of...

The main direction in improving wholesale prices for industrial output lies in bringing them closer to the socially necessary expenditures of labor. This is an objectively conditioned process since the socially necessary expenditures for the production of commodities are the basis for prices.

Implementation of measures for improvement of planning and strengthening the economic stimulation of industrial production is closely connected with improving price formation. The existing system of wholesale prices for industrial products has serious deficiencies that impede the large-scale...

The conference held at the CPSU Central Committee on the acceleration of scientific-technological progress emphasized the need to improve pricing so that it would promote the successful fulfillment of the Party's economic policy and facilitate the earliest possible introduction of everything new...

The Program of the CPSU points out that it is necessary in communist construction to make full use of commodity-money relations in accordance with their new content under socialism.

In addition to other matters, the program adopted by the Twenty-Fourth Congress of the CPSU for the further improvement of the management and planning of the national economy envisages improvements in the system of price information. In his report on the Directives of the Twenty-Fourth Congress...

While eight months of intensive effort to carry out the decisions of the Twenty-Fourth Congress of the CPSU are left before the end of the Ninth Five-Year Plan, this five-year plan has already expired as far as the improvement of price formation is concerned. New prices are elaborated a year...

Among the measures concerning the implementation of economic reform, the review of wholesale prices has been of great significance. Profit has become one of the basic indices characterizing the results of the economic activity of enterprises. These indices have made new demands on price...