Almost forty years ago in his famous book iCybernetics and Society/i, Norbert Wiener, the father of cybernetics, wrote, "To live effectively means to live with the availability of correct information," But this did not apply to us. Reliable information is intolerable to a society of "real...

History repeats itself. Now, like a quarter century ago, a price reform is being prepared in secret by the USSR State Committee for Prices. But then the materials prepared in this way were rejected. What happened?

The journal's editors are publishing this article in the hope of drawing the attention of USSR and Kazakh SSR agro-industrial committees to the great importance that experiments carried out under the guidance of I. N. Khudenko hold for the current restructuring and development of the nation's...

The article discusses the structure and functions of modern gold and currency reserves (GCR). It is shown that while managing GCR it is necessary to provide their most effective usage. Basic criteria of their sufficiency are considered. The superfluity of Russian GCR is noted and possible...

The article deals with the unsatisfactory conditions of existing houses and apartment buildings as well as the slowdown in current housing construction in Russia. An analysis of the correlation between the level of housing construction and demographic dynamics reveals the significance of effects...

The article by T. Khabarova, holder of a candidate's degree in philosophy, justly discusses the important role of the modification of value, of that basis of prices, for cost accounting, which presupposes that proceeds from the sale of goods and services more than compensates the cost of their...

There is no doubt regarding the need for recently adopted legislative and normative acts oriented toward a transition to a market economy. For all their shortcomings and defects, they are creating some of the requisite legal foundations for [this transition]. But as experience shows, too many of...

Many of the economy's executives have high hopes for the statute on the enterprise and are waiting for this important document to appear.

The development of electronic computers is one of the greatest achievements of contemporary science and technology. They can interpret and process tremendous amounts of numerical material at speeds of several thousands per second. Following a given sequence, these machines can change the program...

Xinollg other things, the research program of the Electronic. ally-Controlled Machines Institute of the USSR Academy of Sclences covers planning and statistical applications of high-speed electronic computers. Preliminary results of these researches have been very promising. Electronic computers...