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military expenditures, the help to a number of states, the excessive expenditures on administration and privileges of our leaders. Years passed. All these expenses have been drastically decreased, but the standards of living still keep falling down, this fall being faster than the rise of the national income. Consequendy, it was caused by the return of the old debts, when the country lived better than it worked and also by the lowering of the efficiency of production in the transition period. The standards of living will keep falling down since this is one of the provisions of the mechanism of indexation of incomes acting in the process of transition to a free price formation. This concerns first and foremost the most qualified and active part of the population. The market infrastructure has not been formed yet, and in a number of cases the new links of economy do not act constructively, rather preferring to parasitize on the difference between the fixed and the free price and on the limits of distribution of the raw materials. The border between the old and the new, between the private and the state property has become the sphere of speculation, swindling and stealing, i.e., a criminal zone. The sooner we transform the economy, the sooner we liquidate this zone. In the transition period, we have to realize the groundlessness of some illusions forced upon us by some supporters of market relations, who speak of a crisis-free development of the future society, the harmlessness of social stratification. The most pronounced will be the disappointment in the ability of the new economic system to attain the standards of living of the developed capitalist countries in a short time. Our natural and climatic conditions, a decrease in the efficiency of exploitation of mineral resources, the difficulties connected with the formation of market incentives of labor—all this hinders our movement to market relations. In addition, we shall have to pay our debts on credits to foreign states, which we have spent on the formation of the market infrastructure. We shall have to analyze carefully the tactics of transition to maiket relations which has its own inherent logic, its stages, ways and methods of formation. If we ignore it, we shall suffer considerable losses, first of all in the sphere of the welfare of the population. In the process of transition to market relations, we rejected one theory after another since, as a rule, they pursued political aims, whereas the economy is the first to be reorganized in order to strengthen the role played by the main economic laws of commodity production and weaken the role played by other laws characteristic of the commanding and administrative system.* This refers to the moving forces of the national economy in the transition period, the motivation of labor, price formation, commercialization of the economy, the introduction of private property a$ well as the effects produced on uncontrolled economic processes of production and distribution of goods under the market conditions. First of all, conditions must be created under which the viability of enterprises will depend on the increase of their output, the extension of the sales market, the raising of the technological level of * Radaev, V. On the criteria of social development, 1992, J. Economist, No. 4. 5 1