The administration of the Soviet price system

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Notes

This article is published as part of the Price Debate associated with the Research Project on price theories and policies in centrally planned economies at the Institute of Soviet and East European Studies, University of Glasgow, which is directed by Dr. Janusz G. Zielinski and enjoys financial assistance from the Social Science Research Council. The scope of the price debate is now being broadened to include not only inter‐industry price theories and policies but also those of foreign trade, retail and agricultural pricing in all the socialist countries of Eastern Europe. An appropriately revised list of suggested topics to indicate the main areas on which we should like to concentrate our debate is now available on request from Dr. Zielinski. As before, authors are asked to bear in mind that Soviet Studies is an interdisciplinary journal, and as far as possible to provide such introduction to the ground they cover as will enable non‐economist readers to keep in touch with the kind of problems presented by pricing in these economies, in view of their relevance to other work on these societies.—Editor.

I wish to thank the Earhart Foundation for a grant supporting work on this study, and Dennis A. O'Hearn and David L. Dorenfeld for their assistance in research.