The conceptualization and mutual use of experience in improving the economic mechanism in CMEA [Council for Mutual Economic Assistance] countries form an important reserve for accelerating the intensification and enhancing the effectiveness of their economies. The purpose of analyzing the...

The economic management reform is primarily designed to increase the effectiveness of centralized management and planning, to expand the economic independence of enterprises and associations substantially, and to encourage the active use of cost accounting, commodity and monetary relations, and...

Under the new system of production planning and economic incentives, payment for productive capital is one element in the overall mechanism of controlling socialist enterprises according to the principles of full economic accountability. It should improve the utilization of productive capital by...

In the Report to the Twenty-fifth Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, L. I. Brezhnev stressed the need for further improvement in the economic mechanism. The Party views measures for the further improvement of economic management as a major reserve for the acceleration of...

Some economists question the stimulating effect and expediency of the further use of capital charges in the system of economic accountability. (>u>1>/u>) At the same time, they assess its effectiveness on the basis of the dynamics of the output-capital ratio.

In large measure, the scale of the introduction of new equipment and its economic effectiveness depend on improvements in commodity-monetary relations and in the entire system of economic levers that affect technical progress. The Directives of the Twenty-Fourth Congress of the CPSU on the...