Russian Abstract: В статье обосновывается необходимость ориентации стратегического планирования на повышение конкурентоспособности национальной экономики....

V. Shmelev's article contains a clear, precise analysis of the state of the economy and the so-called "socialist consumer market." The market (which to be sure has never existed) has indeed "collapsed." It is difficult to disagree with the author's pessimistic conclusions.

The balance of the population's money incomes and expenditures is an important planning tool. It is used for establishing the necessary proportions between consumption and accumulation funds, for coordinating the growth of the population's money incomes with the increase in consumer goods and...