A book prepared by a team of employees of the Research Institute of Economics of the USSR State Planning Commission and other institutions outlines pricing issues in the main sectors of the national economy. The main attention of the authors is paid to the generalization of the currently applied methodology and practice of pricing in the USSR, the presentation of some results of their scientific research and the accumulated practical experience of economic justification of levels and price structure. A large place in the work is given to the issues of revising wholesale prices for heavy industry products, stimulating the production of high-quality products and new equipment, planning purchase prices for agricultural products, wholesale and retail prices for consumer goods. In addition, methodological issues of determining full labor costs - a new tool for planned pricing.