One of the basic problems attracting the attention of the bourgeois economists are the rates and the characteristics of development of the USSR's national economy, and especially the rate of growth of Soviet industry. Many bourgeois economists studying the Soviet economy are compelled to recognize that the USSR's economy is being developed at a rapid rate which is higher than the rate of economic development of any capitalist country. Thus, at an international scientific conference in Milan (September, 1955) an English economist, P. Wiles, stated that the Soviet economy has been developing at a high rate never observed in the western countries. A French economist, B. De Jouvenel, frankly declared: We believe that it is hopeless to deny the very rapid growth of Soviet industrial production. (1) Even more significant was the statement by H. Roberts, director of the Russian Institute at Columbia University, in his book "Russia and America": "…The Soviet Union has expanded at a significantly faster rate, both industrially and in gross national product, than has the United States in almost all years since 1928, the start of the Soviet planning era, and even faster than the United States did during the period of the latter's exceptionally rapid growth from 1860 to 1900." (2) In a special report published by the Joint Economic Committee of the US Congress in 1957 it was also noted that the growth rate of Soviet industry is presumably double the industrial growth rate of the United States. (3) A. Bergson and other prominent economists in the United States, Great Britain, France, and other capitalist countries made similar statements.