Rated Planning, the use of scientifically substantiated progressive rates and norms in the planned management of the socialist economic system. At the present stage of economic development in the USSR, when the role of the five-year plan in economic management is growing, in order to stimulate the creative initiative of work collectives (see Collective, Work, Production) the planning of a number of indicators in absolute terms in being replaced by the planning and approval of tasks in the form of stable rates over the years of the fiveyear plan. The plan sets: wage rates (instead of the general wage fund); rated economic incentives funds (instead of their absolute size); rated distribution of profits (instead of their general volume). Rates as indicators characterise the relationship between inputs and results (a rate of wages outlays per rouble of output, a rate of investment per unit of capacity increment, a rate of input of conventional fuel per unit output of electricity and heat, etc.). Planning makes use of a system of rates and norms embracing all the processes involved in the production and distributing of output. Rated planning is based on a differentiated system of economic and technical rates and norms. To the former belong such rates as those for the distribution of profits between the ministry and the state budget, and for the formation of economic incentives funds. Economic rates and norms are important components of the development of cost-accounting relations, improvement of the system of economic levers and stimuli. Technical and economic norms ( indicators) are those characterising the degree (level) of use of fixed assets, material and financial resources and living labour. These norms are coefficients of the use of equipment, production capacities, indicators of the asset-output ratio, capital intensity; material and labour intensity of production, the efficiency coefficient of materials, etc. Under modern conditions, when scientific, technological and economic processes are becoming increasingly dynamic, the role of the five-year plan in economic management is growing and when work collectives are taking a more and more active part in drawing up plans, rated planning makes it possible to realise more fully the principle of democratic centralism in economic management.