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Analyzes the role of accumulation policy in the scientific and technical progress of the Soviet Union. Necessity of planning an optimal combination of accumulation and consumption as part of the economic policy of capital investments; Allocation of capital investments for scientific-technical research; Necessity of coordinating the planning of capital investments with the planning of manpower and technical progress.

Analyzes the course and initial results of an experiment undertaken by the Communist Party of the Soviet Union to develop specific measures and directions for improving the economic mechanism in five branches of the country's industry under the 12th Five-Year Plan. Shortcomings of the existing economic mechanism; Effectiveness of profit distribution methods; Pros and cons of the experimental method of forming the wage fund.

Discusses the creation of a system of performance evaluation indicators that can be used in improving the Soviet Union's economic planning and management mechanism. Shortcomings of existing volume indicators; Quantitative and qualitative growth of all physical and value indicators; Evaluation of the satisfaction of needs using the economic category known as use value; Functions of performance evaluation indicators.

Discusses the draft of a program proposed by the Communist Party of the Soviet Union aimed at improving the national economic management system. Main factors underlying declining growth rates of labor productivity; Restructure of the principles and methods of management; Utilization of a system of economic planning norms as a principal instrument in orienting enterprises towards attainment of planned goals.

Discusses the Communist Party of the Soviet Union's planned improvements in the system for managing the national economy, formulated during its December 1983 and April 1984 plenums. Enhancement of the effectiveness of the production structure, economic levers and stimuli; Resolution of obstacles for the organization of centralized planned management of work; Improvement of organizational structure and economic planning system.

Analyzes social factors underlying the problem of technological obsolescence and its relevance for the Communist Party of the Soviet Union's efforts to develop programs aimed at increasing the socioeconomic effectiveness of social production. Causes of social technological obsolescence; Objective necessity of revising social norms to address the problem; Policy necessary to improve social technological effectiveness.

Discusses positive developments in the Soviet Union's economy in 1983 as a result of policy measures adopted by the Communist Party in 1982. Pace of economic development in 1983; Improvement in the population's well being resulting from the increased efficiency of social production; Plans for 1984; Trends in the country's economic development starting in the 1970s; Figures that confirm the correctness of the measures adopted.

Analyzes scientific and practical problems associated with the policy of restricting the growth of large cities in Soviet Union. Requirements for suburbanization and decentralization process; Need for implementation of effective demographic policy; Impact of increase in population of large cities on growth rate.

Examines the measures taken by the Soviet Union to improve the nation's economy through the restructurization of economic management. Need for the management mechanism to conform with the economics of developed socialism; Restructure and redefinition of the functions of the State Planning Committee; Experiments undertaken to accelerate technical and scientific progress.

Focuses on plans of Communist Party of the Soviet Union Central Committee in solving socioeconomic policy problems. Aim of comprehensive improvement and development of personal services and consumer goods production; Need for production of made-to-order goods; Proposal for improving the quality of repair and reconditioning of goods.

Examines cost-accounting independence and responsibility of enterprises in the economic mechanism of the socialist economy of the Soviet Union. Expansion of the independence and responsibility of production associations and enterprises; Formation and use of the labor renumeration fund to improve economic incentives; Provisions for the development of production at enterprises.

Discusses the theoretical and practical basis of planned price formation in the socialist economy of the Soviet Union. Emphasis on the intensification of social production and task of increasing the efficacy of the socialist economy; Improvement of the scientific substantiation of methods of determining economic effectiveness; Role of economic mechanism demand in the relationship between price and plan.

Discusses the intensification of the investment process in the Soviet Union. Acceleration of the changes in the national economy's fixed capital, material and technological foundation and labor productivity; Emphasis on a unified scientific and technical policy on key problems in material production; Increase in the volume of capital investment during the plan periods.

Focuses on the efforts to improve branch management to restructure the economic mechanism in Soviet Union. Participation of majority of ministries and departments; Factors affecting production; Involvement of changes in the status of the enterprise.

Examines whether scientific-technical (STP) progress have increased the effectiveness of social production in the Soviet Union with due regard to all measures that have been taken to improve the economic mechanism between 1975 and 1982. Indicators of the effect of STP on the effectiveness of social production; System for economically stimulating STP; Methods for measuring the economic effectiveness.

Analyzes the rate of economic development in the Soviet Union between 1975 and 1983. Factors influencing the rate of economic growth; Difference between the growth rates in a socialist economy and a capitalist economy; Dynamics of growth rates for different branches and regions; Indicators of economic growth; Importance of national economic planning in the struggle to accelerate economic growth rates.

Discusses the need to develop sophisticated techniques for assessing the effectiveness of economic measures and their incorporation in planning practice in the Soviet Union. Problems due to discrepancies in the methods used to assess economic effectiveness; Classes of measures that need to be substantiated within the framework of economic effectiveness; Types of planning and accounting prices used in economic substantiation.

Discusses some of the key issues regarding the structure of Soviet Union economy. Conclusions from the analysis of classical theoretical framework; Role of economic mechanism of socialist society in the economy; Measures to improve the functioning of economic mechanism.

Discusses the incorporation of an entire system of economic norms and limits in planning and incentive practice to resolve the problem of combining centralized planning with the development of economic initiatives in the Soviet Union. Features determining the nature of economic norms and limits; Role and features of the economic mechanism; Factors hindering the functioning of economic norms and limits.

Focuses on the price formation system and economic mechanism in the economic policy of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Principles of planned price formation system; Reason for strengthening the balance methods of planning; Effects of increasing production cost on the wholesale price.

Discusses the five-year plan of the Twenty-Sixth Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, which outlines measures to intensify production through cooperation in the area of investments with member nations of the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (CMEA). Capital investments and national income of CMEA nations in 1970; Coordination of national investment programs and production capacities.

Focuses on the decree of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and the Council of Ministers for the improvement of labor resources management through the influence of the economic mechanism. Characteristic expansion of socialist reproduction in manpower redistribution; Determinants for the improvement of the manpower redistribution mechanism.

Analyzes the role of social infrastructure in the territorial management of the Soviet Union's economy. Good and services supplied by the social infrastructure; Means by which social infrastructure influences economic development; Steps for promoting the intensification of the impact of social infrastructure on the development of the production sphere in each territorial link.

Examines the socialist economic policy of the Soviet Union toward reproduction and labor. Use of actual and comparable prices in the process of developing the balance of the national economy; Optimization of the dynamics of the extractive and manufacturing branches; Importance of the timely renovation of the means of labor to optimize social production.

Examines the increased influence of consumer production on economic planning in the Soviet Union. Elements of economic mechanism underlying the action of the law of planned, proportional development; Steps taken to saturate demand in socialist nations; External and internal conditions governing economic relations between supplier and customer enterprises; Indicators tracking sales and delivery of products to consumers.

Examines the patterns of socialist intensification in the Soviet Union. Influence of basic economic law on intensification; Need for a long-term increase in the share of productive capital; Comparison of productive capital in constant prices and sizes of the work force in material production; Requisite of a higher level of science and technology for further growth of the socialist economy.

Focuses on measures drafted by the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in its guidelines for economic and social development in 1981-85 and the period up to 1990, aimed at eliminating departmental disconnectedness and improving branch production. Departmental-branch principle and its effect on organization and management of socialist social production; Causes of deconcentration; Branch centralization strategy.

Discusses the need for the Communist Party of the Soviet Union's 25th Congress to balance economic and social development plans and improve the correspondence between supply and demand of consumer goods and services. Required actions and program measures; Role of the industry in the study of the market and demand; Lessons from the experience of socialist countries; Assessments and criteria for production and trade.

Focuses on the report of central committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union at the 26th party congress on the production and improvement of the quality of consumer goods. Place of personal services in the system of branches in the national economy; Planned management and the economic mechanism.

Presents improvement of the infrastructure for the policy of economic intensification in Soviet Union. Importance of direction in the national economic planning; Impact of the social division of labor on the intereconomic relations; Theoretical and methodological problems in the formation and planning of the infrastructure.

Discusses the implementation of the strategy of the 26th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union which is directed towards increasing effectiveness and improving the quality of production and price formation in various branches of the national economy. Measures to improve price formation; Role of enterprise cost in increasing the effectiveness of production; Factors driving economic effect.

Examines measures to be implemented by the Twenty-Sixth Congress of the Communist Party of Soviet Union under the Eleventh Five-Year Plan to enhance the role of the banking system in improving the effectiveness of the country's social production. Role of the State Bank in the process of regulating monetary circulation and realizing targets of the plan; Functions of bank credit in the national economy.

Discusses economic measures for the rational utilization of manpower in the Soviet economy. Factors responsible for the manpower shortage; Enhancement of the specialization of production; Need for changes in certain principles in the existing labor laws; Measures to attract manpower from rural population to labor in social production.

Focuses on long-range goals necessary in raising the standard of living in the Soviet Union articulated by the Twenty-sixth Congress of the Communist Party. Explanation of the objective law of reproduction; Growth of production and the development of the investment complex; Alleviations of the disproportions in the national economy; Implementation of the system of social measures.

Focuses on the necessity of developing a special food program as stated by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Goal and objectives of the 'Food' special integrated national economic programs; Spheres determining the functional structure of the food complex; Determination of the main goal indicator of the program.

Emphasizes the need to raise the role of financial and credit levers in the system of economic management in the Soviet Union. Realization of financial and credit planning in long term national economic planning; Conversion of ministries into the normative profit-distribution system; Financing procedure for science and technology from the unified fund.

Looks at the intensification of production and technical policy in the Soviet Union in the 1980s. Implication for the growth of national wealth; Increase in the productive fixed capital; Content and aspects of intensification; Problems affecting scientific and technical policy.

Examines the economic programs for improving the well-being of the people for social progress in the Soviet Union in the 1970s. Significance of the task of raising the standard of living; Economic conditions during the tenth five-year plan; Concern over agroindustrial complex; Need for the implementation of the decisions of the twenty-sixth congress.

Focuses on the strengthening of the economic role of contractual relations for the agroindustrial sphere of the economy in Soviet Union. Measures to improve agricultural planning and incentive techniques; Factors weakening the economic influence of contractual relations; Importance of cost accounting and contractual relations in agroindustrial sector.

Discusses problems related to fuel-raw material and power complex and their implications on the Soviet Union economy. Benefits of a strengthened material and technological base on the economy; Adverse effects of rising fuel-raw material and power complex expenditures on cost-accounting relations; Need to increase the wholesale prices of enterprises and industry on round timber.

Focuses on the implementation of an economic mechanism that is consistent with the mature socialist society of the Soviet Union. Necessity of changing the characteristic and style of economic thinking; Emphasis on balanced economic growth in planned management; Measures to strengthen cost accounting and the role of economic levers and stimuli.

Focuses on the Communist Party of the Soviet Union's draft guidelines for economic and social development for 1981-1985 and the period up to 1990, which emphasizes the improvement of the people's well being to promote consumer demand. Reason for the emphasis on consumer demand; Requirements for the implementation of the socialist principle of distribution; Correlation between supply and effective demand.

Discusses the Communist Party of the Soviet Union's draft guidelines on major reserves to increase the output-capital ratio in the national economy for 1981-85 and for the period up to 1990. Potential of fixed capital and its role in socialist reproduction; Intensification of capital utilization for economic growth; Technical progress and reserves for increasing output-capital ratio; Capital utilization and renovation.

Discusses guidelines on the compilation of the Eleventh Five-Year Plan of economic and social development of the Soviet Union. Placement of emphasis on improving the methods for substantiating indicators of the effectiveness of social production; Inclusion of methods for substantiating the proportional development of the economy; Elaboration of material balances and distribution plans.

Focuses on the resurgence of Keynesian economics in the state economic regulatory policy of the Soviet Union. Use of Keynesian orthodoxy as a basis for developing anti-cyclical and growth policy; Shortcomings of the Keynesian theory of the level of national income; Formation of a post-Keynesian paradigm that integrates Ricardian traditions of the theory of value and the Marxist approach to capitalist reproduction.

Focuses on the use of consistent principles in the Soviet Union for determining the economic effectiveness of new technology and capital investments. Quantitative calculation on the effectiveness of capital investments and new technology; Formulas used in the calculation of economic effectiveness; Errors in the use of the discounted costs methods; Significance of the multiple-factor formula of discounted costs.

Focuses on economic aspects of a proposed unified fund to finance the scientific and technical development of production in the Soviet Union on the basis of the decree of Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Discussions on norms that govern the fund; Influence of the indicator of national economic effect of manufactured equipment on the mechanism of financing.

Discusses the role of prices in determining the optimality of economic planning and design decisions of the Soviet Union. Changes in levels, correlations, and structure of prices that are caused by the development of the economic mechanism; Plan for a wholesale price revision; Normative, parametric techniques of pricing; Coordination of long-range price planning with the government's economic plan.

Focuses on a decree passed in the Soviet Union which aims to improve financial and credit planning in order to increase production effectiveness. Importance of stable, long-range planning of financial resources; Transition to normative method of profit distribution and cost-accounting financing of expenditures; Plans for expansion of fixed payment usage; Financial aspects of effective use of labor resources.

Focuses on the influence of a planned pricing system on the economic mechanism for managing the socialist economy. Role of pricing policy on the scientific and technological progress in the national economy of the Soviet Union; Problems faced by pricing agencies when establishing prices of products of the agricultural industry; Influence of change in incomes and prices on consumer demand.