The study tries to map the first half of the 1960s in the economic theory of Slovakia. The economic crisis, which affected the Czechoslovak economy, as well as the beginning of a certain liberal period in the policy of the Czechoslovak socialist state, made the Slovak economists-theoreticians get some knowledge about the thinking trends in the West and enabled the critical standpoints towards current socialist industrialization of Slovakia to be published. Even a more strict definition of the problems in economic development of Slovakia within Czechoslovakia could be possible.