Note from the editors of uVoprosy ekonomiki/u: The General Annual Meeting of the Department of Economics of the USSR Academy of Sciences was held on March 12, 1979. Academician N. Fedorenko, academician-secretary of the department, reported on the work performed by the department's scientific...

The decisions of the Twenty-sixth CPSU Congress and the November (1982) and June (1983) Plenums of the CPSU Central Committee indicated the basic directions in which the economic mechanism is to be improved. Specifically, it must be oriented toward maximizing the potential and advantages of the...

The planned introduction of advances of science and technology in the national economy requires improvement of the entire system of economic management and the consistent implementation of the party's economic strategy. Scientific and technical progress occupies a leading place in this process...