Reform of Soviet Economic Management

PREFACE, PART I: LAUNCHING THE REFORM: 1965-66, On Improving Industrial Management, Perfecting Planning, and Enhancing Incentives in Industrial Production, Finances and Economic Stimuli, New Developments in Construction Financing, Unity of Plan and Cost Accounting, Tasks of Economic Planning in the New Conditions, Development of Direct Economic Ties and Improvement of the Distribution of Means of Production, PROBLEMS OF PLANNED PRICE FORMATION (A Symposium), The Trade Branch, A Mighty Stimulus for the Development of Production, The Plan, Direct Ties and Profitability, Economic Stimuli to Increase the Effectiveness of Capital Investments and the Output-to-Capital Ratio, The Enterprise and Material Stimulation, Production — Plan — Supply, Profitability of Socialist Enterprises, The Economic Reform and the Increasing Role of Credit, On the Procedure and Conditions for Changing to the New System, PART II: DOCUMENTS ON THE REFORM On Improving the Management of Industry, Perfecting Planning, and Strengthening the Economic Stimulation of Industrial Production, (A Resolution of the Plenary Meeting of the CPSU Central Committee, Adopted September 29, 1956), Law of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics on Changes in the System of Agencies of Industrial Management and the Transformation of Certain Other Agencies of State Administration, Statute on the Socialist State Production Enterprise (Approved by Decision of the USSR Council of Ministers, October 4, 1965), Rules for Financing Construction (Approved by Decision of the USSR Council of Ministers.

This title was first published in 1966