Rapid methodological progress is now taking place in the USSR in the solution of the problems of developing both society and economy. A considerable proportion of the total methodological problems of the USSR economy are dealt with in the present monograph. This work is intended for economists, managers and specialists in methodology, sociology and applied mathematics, and it may also be useful to researchers into operations as well as to politicians, philosophers and wide circles of readers interested in the present and future problems of the USSR economy. Readers will find here, I hope, answers to many questions. At the same time this work can be used as a manual for students and post-graduate students investigating countries with centrally planned economies. For his monograph the author has used the material originally developed for a special course of lectures called "Macromodels of Planning". Some sections of the book correspond to the subjects of courses on "Mathematical Programming" and "Operations Research" as well as to the subjects of special courses on "Methods of Vector Optimization", "Stochastic Programming", "Parametric Programming" and "Decomposition Methods of Programming", read by the author from 1971 to 1976 to the graduates and post graduates of the department of applied mathematics and management processes at Leningrad University.

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I. Major Problems of the USSR Economy at the Modern Stage.- 1. Fundamentals of Planning the Development of the National Economy of the USSR.- 2. Modern State of the Economy of the USSR.- 3. Urgent Problems of Management of the USSR Economy.- 4. A Brief History.- II. Problems of Optimum of the National Economy of the USSR.- 5. Some Problems of the Theory of Optimal Functioning of the Socialist Economy.- 6. Various Notions of the National Economic Criterion of Optimality of the Socialist Economy.- 7. The Local Criterion of Optimality.- III. Main Elements of the System of Comprehensiv Planning and Management of the Socialist Economy.- 8. Main Elements of the System of Comprehensive Planning the Socialist Economy.- 9. Methodological Problems of National Economic Prediction.- 10. Problems of the Optimal Forward Planning of the Development of the National Economy of the USSR.- 11. Fundamentals of the System of Models of Medium-Term National Economic Planning.- 12. Multistep Approach to Optimization of Planning the Development of the National Economy of the USSR.- 13. Balance Intersectoral Models.- IV. Models of the Optimal Forward Planning of the Development of the National Economy of the USSR.- 14. The Sectoral Mathematical Models of Forward Optimal Planning.- 15. The Model of the Transport Complex.- 16. The Mathematical Model of the Upper Level of the National Economy.- 17. Models of Economic Regions.- 18. A Set of Models for Predicting the Social and Economic Results from Realization of the Optimal Plan.- 19. The Procedure of Elaboration of the Optimal Socially Balanced Plan of Developing the National Economy.- V. A Set of the Medium-Term Planning Models for Developing the National Economy.- 20. A set of the Medium-Term Planning Models for Developing the National Economy.- 21. A Dynamic Single-Sector Model with Structural Non-equilibrium.- VI. The Multistep System of Models for Optimization of Planning the Development of the National Economy of the USSR.- 22. The Multistep Optimization of Planning the Development of the National Economy with the Local Criterion of a General Form.- 23. Analysis of the Multistep Optimization with Some Concrete Forms of the Local Criterion.- 24. Analysis of the Intersectoral Model in the Multistep System of Planning the Development of the National Economy.- VII. Some National Economic Models of Planning and Management.- 25. Some Models of Territorial Production Planning.- 26. Some Models of Planned Price Formation.- VIII. The Automated System of Plan Calculations (ASPC) of the State Planning Committee of the USSR.- 27. The Functional Structure of the Automated System of Plan Calculations.- 28. Features of Functioning of the ASPC of the State Planning Committee of the USSR in Various Regimes.- 29. Planning the Capital Construction Block in the National Economic Plan of the USSR.- 30. Planning in the Logistics Support Block.- 31. Planning in the Prime Cost and Profit Block.- 32. Planning in the Labor and Personnel Block of Sectoral Subsystems and Complexes.- 33. Project Decisions for a Complex of Software Subsystems of the ASPC of the USSR State Planning Committee.- IX. Conclusion.