Yefimov A., Anchishkin A. State planning: Aims, Ways, Results

Translated by L. Lempert. — Moscow: Novosti, 1960. — 228 p.Anatoly Yefimov, d. econ., corresponding member of the USSR academy of sciences, director of the economic research institute of the USSR state planning committee, chief editor of the soviet economic encyclopaedia, the author of a number of monographs on planning and soviet economy.
As a youth he worked in industry and obtained a higher education by evening studies. Subsequently, headed the economic research department of the Urals branch of the USSR academy of sciences. Prof. Yefimov has acted as consultant in the organisation of planning in some newly free countries, has taken part in international symposiums on planning.Alexander Anchishkin, m. Sc. (econ.), senior research worker at the economic research institute specialising in problems of reproduction and the balance of the national economy. National economic planning was the subject of his thesis. He has a number of publications on economic problems.Origin and development of socialist planningSources of socialist planning
First national economic plans
Five-Year Plans of the Soviet Union
Planning in other socialist countriesExperience of capitalist planning (programming)Prerequisites for economic programming
Practical experience
ResultsAim and essence of planningSocialist planning in the interests of all society
Scientific nature of planning
Social needs in the focus of attention
Efficiency as the chief indicator
Proportionality as essence of planning
Capitalist programming. Contradictions between aims and possibilities
“Concerted” economy and private interests
Capitalist programming as an aid to the marketForms and organisation of planningSystem of plans and their interconnection
Current and long-term plans
Planning by sectors and areas
Democratic centralism in planning
Economic forecasts and capitalist programming
Indicative planning
Conjunctural planning
Structural planning
Who draws up the plans?Economic substantiation of plansDifference between methods of planning and programming
Common features in calculation methods
Planning growth rates of socialist economy
Dynamics and use of labour resources
Growth of accumulations and assets per worker
Consumption fund and its share in national income
Principles of forming the final social product
Sectorial structure of the gross social product
Optimal planning in the socialist economy
Optimum problems in capitalist economyThe plan and developing countriesFactors determining the specificity of planning
The state sector and planning
The plan and problems of industrialisation
Foreign economic ties and planning
Distinctions in methods of plan formulation