Abstract
The broad discussion that is now under way on the issues of planning and material incentives reflects, as it were, the need to improve the system of planning our national economy, a need which has naturally arisen lately. Important tasks have been posed in the process of building the material and technical basis of communism. Among them, in the actual practice of planning, there is the problem of thoroughly substantiating plans from the standpoint of the economic effectiveness of capital investment and new equipment. There is an urgent need to combine planning, economic efficiency and economic stimulation of production into an integral process. It is also essential that planning be brought into full conformity with the new forms of management in the national economy. The main problem today is to apply improved scientific methods of planning, including mathematical methods.