Unity of Plan and Cost Accounting

The experience of economic development in the USSR and the other socialist countries has graphically and convincingly revealed the scientific criterion by which we should be guided in the elaboration and execution of economic reforms. This criterion is the conformity of each reform to the nature and objective laws of the planned socialist economy, to the specific features of the given stage, the achieved level and the needs of development of the productive forces. This criterion follows directly from the fundamentals of Marxist-Leninist theory on the building of socialism and communism.

The Role of Profit in a Socialist Economy

This article examines the new content of profit in the socialist economy; the place of profit in the system of economic categories of socialism; shortcomings which restrict the possibilities of using the index of profitability; and ways of enhancing the role of profit as a means for improving the operation of socialist enterprises.

Problems of Economic Stimulation of Technical Progress

>p>The building up of the material and technical basis of communism in the Soviet Union within the next 15 to 20 years, the accomplishment of our main economic task, the winning of time in peaceful competition with capitalism, the attainment of superiority in every line of modern technology - all this largely hinges on the maximum acceleration of technical progress.>/p>>p>Actual practice long ago proved that the socialist economic system possesses tremendous and ever increasing advantages over capitalism in the acceleration of technical progress, opening up the broadest vistas for the development of the productive forces. Only socialism and communism are capable of consistently carrying out the modern scientific and technical revolution which began in the mid-20th century.>/p>