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The formation of new economic relations in our country entered the phase of a search for effective ways of solving the problems of creation of a market mechanism. However, this process does not go on smoothly since it entails changes in the economic basis of the lives of dozens of millions of people. At the same time, the model of the future market economy is not yet quite clear. If we analyse objectively the achievements and errors in the development of the national economy proceeding from the historical experience of our country for the last 75 years, we can infer that the most effective is the system based on the variety of forms of property in all fields of the economy, money-and-goods relations in the output and distribution of production, a reliable social protection of the population against the uncontrolled market and on the state regulation of the economy. But for these problems to be solved, the economic system must function as a single whole so as to ensure its survival, dynamic development, the renovation of the productive forces and means of production and an adequate level of life of the population. The way to such a model will be long, complicated and contradictory. A number of foreign experts consider that the period of transition to market relations will be as long as ten years. It is necessary to transform the economy, to change the social policy, to develop the private property, to create a market mechanism for the regulation of production. Since these transformations mean a qualitative changeover from one state to another, it is impossible without an aggravation of economic and social relations, without a crisis in the old forms of production, the replacement of the old structures by new ones. The inevitability of these events is substantiated by the experience of the countries of Eastern Europe. What is of importance is their duration and range. First of all, certain structural changes in the economy must occur in accordance with the requirements of market relations. The activity of unprofitable enterprises must be terminated. The old methods are unsuitable here and, therefore, a number of economists suggest that all donations must be liquidated and enterprises of this kind declared bankrupt. This measure is sure to cause a fall in the volume of production, an increase in unemployment, etc., and, therefore, these suggestions must be very carefully considered and discussed. The transition to market relations will intensify social conflicts in connection with the increase in unemployment and lowering the level of the living conditions of the population* . At the beginning of the perestroika, an opinion prevailed that we lived worse than we worked, because of huge ‘T he cat of a rich man may get milk necessary for a child from a poor family in order to be healthy. This happens not due to a wrong balance between the offer and the demand. The market mechanism did as it must, i.e., sent goods to those who voted for it by money. The defenders and critics of the price mechanism must agree that the effective market system reproduces a considerable inequality.” See an abstract in Economics ty P. Samuelson and V. Hordhaus. J. Economic Sciences, 1990, No. 1, p. 111. 5 0