Abstract
Expansion of the national economy and rapid progress in science and technology require a still greater rise in the role and scientific level of planning. The main tasks of planning now, as Comrade N. S. Khrushchev pointed out at the November (1962) Plenary Meeting of the CPSU Central Committee, are the more rational and effective use of material, labor and financial resources, of the natural wealth, the development and introduction of new technology, and the elimination of unnecessary costs and losses in production. Achievement of maximum production results with minimum outlays, in the interests of society, is a law of our economic development, of management of the socialist economy, and of planning.