ABSTRACT
Since 1988, the process of perestroika in the USSR has spread intensively to the economic sphere. The reform of our national economy, whose ultimate purpose is to convert to market principles and mechanisms, has revealed the wide discrepancy between the principles of market economics and the inability of the traditional economic structures and the system of economic knowledge to grasp these principles and implement them under conditions of economic activity that are totally new to us. The overwhelming majority of managers and workers do not have a clear understanding of how to work under market conditions, unfettered by numerous bureaucratic prescriptions. Traditional economic education consisted of training the specialist who had a knowledge of economic concepts and categories necessary to understand the numerous instructions, commands, and directives issued by numerous central and sectorial economic departments and apply them in his work.
