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Without understanding the “optimal relationship" of these three parameters, we cannot achieve a balance of supply and demand. Hence, the “states of emergency” and the card and coupon systems of distribution of goods are in short supply. The contemporary theoretical model states that the urgent needs of people must serve as the “reference point” of the economy, first and foremost their effective demand for specific goods. The volumes of necessary consumer goods and services must be considered to be a special order of the society placed upon the sphere of producdon. However, because of their departmental and group interests, the enterprises of group “A” try to retain their privileges of control and “independent planning” of their own activity. The market of consumer goods does not control them and is, therefore, of no interest to them. The old methods of planning have led us to a blind alley and the new methods do not function. The sphere of influence of the administrative and commanding planning is narrowing very slowly; it is not so easy to lower the “efficiency" of ministries. We produce now one kind of products of group “A”, now another, in greater amounts than any other country of the world, whereas goods of personal consumption keep disappearing. The heads of enterprises complain that the principal propositions of the Law on Enterprises do not work, and that it is difficult to carry out self-financing. Ministries and departments blockade the independence of enterprises. The majority of administrators say that it is time to take the enterprises of group “B” producing consumer goods out of the dictatorship of higher organizations, terminate planning from above, in deeds and not in words give them the right to conclude agreements with suppliers, to decide what to produce and in what amounts, to meet the demands of the market and to pay for labor input according to the end result. The market and the competition, rather than the administrative pressing, are capable of satisfying the demand for versatile consumer goods. Managers specially insist on this saying that “the population will accept market relations” irrespective of all apprehensions concerning the differentiation of payments for labor input. The renouncing of the remnant principle of the allocation of resources to the sphere of consumer goods is a necessary prerequisite of the development of commodity-money relations. The indices of the economic growth, which were traditionally high because of the overproduction of the means of producdon, will cease to be a “dogmatic guiding line.” The realization of the course for deep structural transformations means the renunciation of the “production for the sake of production” and “planning for the sake of planning.” Both theorists and practitioners are unanimous in their inference that the country needs a forced development of group “B” branches of industry and of the branches of the national economy that provide services for the population. The international situation makes it possible to reorient a considerable part of capital investments on the development of the branches of the national economy which produce consumer goods and services. No less than two five-year periods will be needed in order to renovate the old, to construct the new, to pass to modem technologies and to provide raw materials. Alongside this course, we must take measures to eliminate various deficits, to organize the sale of flats and land plots, to issue shares and 1 2 8