The article considers a wide range of scientific researches of the Institute of Economics of the USSR Academy of Sciences on the challenges in the management of the national economy, which made a significant contribution both to the development of theoretical issues in eco-nomic science and to the solution of practical national economic problems at various stages of the country’s history. Among the problems addressed are the following.Formation of management thought and scientific school of public administration at the Institute of Economics of the USSR Academy of Sciences since its foundation in 1930. Theoretical research and the search for solutions to major national economic problems as a scientific profile and prerequisites for the development of management thought. The main lines of research activity of the Institute in the post-war period, the beginning of a long wave of reformation, transition to a post-mobilization model of economics and management.
Andrey Gorodetsky (Wed,) studied this question.