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Table 6. Capital Investments into Groups “A” and “B”, in %. to the Total Volume of Investments into the National Economy 10th five- Differ11th five- Differ12th five- Differ­ Groups year period, ence beyear ence beyear ence be­ 1976-80 tween the period, tween period, tween preceding 1981-85 the pre1986-90 the pre­ five- ceding ceding year five-year five- period period year period Group “A” 30.7 -0.6 31.4 +0.7 32.4 +1.0 Group “B” 4.3 -0.3 4.3 _ 4.1 -0.2 The solution of one of the key problems, that of the structural reconstruction of the economy, proceeds very slowly. For 1986-91 the principle of equal distribution of investments was prevailing. Our main problem is not that we have a small number of mills and factories but, conversely, that they are many in number and the majority of them produce, construct and transport intermediate products. Gigantomania in the production of means of production for the production of means of production, this is the reason for the lag of the sector of consumer goods. Commenting upon the report of President Gorbachev entitled “On the main trends in the domestic and foreign policy of the USSR” and made at the Congress of People’s Deputies, an eminent American economist V. Leontiev, Head of the Institute of Economic Analysis of the New York University, said that in his opinion the most urgent problem of the Soviet economy was the disbalance of the market He stated that, on the one hand, we have not enough goods we urgently need and, on the other hand, we produced goods nobody needed...This is due to the fact that, as before, the rates, funds and wages are closely linked with the volume of the gross output which increases from year to year, reckoned from the level achieved. It is still practically impossible to overcome the enormity of gross output although it has long become clear to everyone that the “planning of gross output” has become obsolete and is incompatible with the cost accounting and self-financing. The consumer market is regulated by three parameters: by the volume, quality and assortment of goods and services, by the effective demand of the population, and by the level and the structure of retail prices. 1 2 7