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restored the trust in the rouble as the means of accumulation. The growth of prices has actually “eaten” up the savings of people, the standards of living have lowered 3-4 times. The proclaimed freedom of trade has led not to competition as was expected but to widespread speculation and evasion of taxes. But all the same the reforms brought about reassuring results. 3. The former administrative mechanism is no longer capable of managing efficiently the national economy, and the new mechanism is not yet ripe enough. The incomes of the population continue to grow faster than the output of goods that can cover them, and it is not always possible to tie the savings by the sale of flats, securities, land plots, by new loans and raised interests. A partial privatization has proved of no much help, either. Notwithstanding the rise of retail prices, goods disappear from shop counters one after another. The rates of inflation have increased drastically, the actual increment of the output of consumer goods has again turned out to be insufficient in order to fill up the inner market The demand is again acute. The crisis on the market of consumer goods is due to the following two essential causes (“old” and “new”). (1) The old group of causes that remained from the years of stagnation includes underdevelopment and lag of the branches of the “B” group and of subdivision of industries as a whole. The demand for consumer goods is still several times higher than the possibilities of industries. The country could not have changed the “nonconsumer” structure of the national economy. As before, the increasing deficit of many consumer goods is due to the fact that more than 70 per cent of the industrial production service its internal turnover. “In our country, on the basis of its resources and potential a unique industrial structure has formed which is oriented on anything but the people.... The attempts to expand the reproduction of this extravagant monster have dried up the power of the country and paved the way to the crisis we have today."* (2) The group of causes that produce daily effects include the underdevelopment of different forms of property, of business activities, individual activities and private property. The powerful resistance to the introduction of private property hinders the economic development of the country. I think that the current year will become the year of practical development of the contemporary forms of private property. The proper market with free prices and competition is impossible with the existence of state property alone. The m arket is the first derivative of private property. It is well known that the economy resting only on the state property is hardly efficient An active privatization process is going on in East-European countries. We lag behind them again. The 1992 is the year of a crisis in the economy, a year during which the “state regulation of the market” remained an unattainable ideal since, in fact, there was neither one nor the other. In our everyday life, goods including fish products are not only in short supply but their range is small and their quality is low. The absence of many high-quality goods is due to the monopolies of enterprises * E. Gaidar, “Russia and the Reform”, Izvesliya, August 19, 1992. 1 5 1