MODERN DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY REQUIRES TURNABOUT TO PLANNING

Abstract

The article raises the issue of using the historical experience of planning initiated by the establishment of the State Planning Committee in Soviet Russia in 1921. Of course, literal borrowing of the Soviet directive planning model is out of the question. However, it has also been proved in actual practice that planning methods can be successfully applied in countries with market economies. These methods are especially efficient for ensuring accelerated development and deep structural transformations in the economy. Therefore, turnabout to using planning experience is not a step back to the past, but on the contrary, a step forward to ensuring deep transformations of the modern economy. Today’s economic development has been facing deep contradictions, first and foremost of which is the obvious gap between opportunities created by the latest technologies and increasing risks and threats to the development of human civilization. The traditional market model, especially in its neoliberal version, does not open up opportunities for resolving these contradictions and often even exacerbates them. Thus, it is necessary to transition to a different socio-economic model that is based on the latest trends in technologies and allows using them to overcome the crisis of modern civilization. The author considers such a model in the framework of the noonomy concept developed by him, i.e., a non-economic way of meeting people’s needs. In this regard, planning methods act as one of the necessary tools for the transition to such a model.