A NOTE ON PRICING MECHANISM IN THE INDUSTRIALIZATION OF THE U.S.S.R.

When we consider the price policy of the Soviet Union, which was enforced to facilitate the creation and establishment of heavy industries, in relation to the price mechanism as it actually functions in the economic process, it may be said that its function should be found within, and not without, the price mechanism. This not only indicates the transitional character of the Soviet price policy but presents suggestions for a genuine socialist price mechanism.