Translations:Manfred Klett: Von der Agrartechnologie zur Landbaukunst/82/en

cost factors in price formation. And yet prices appear — far removed from the actual value of the products — to become calculable, inasmuch as everything that enters into production is conceived as a commodity and thereby made into a cost factor expressible in monetary terms. Thus into the price of an industrial product enter all production costs, including labour costs and a reserve — the depreciation rate — through which the consumed production capital (machine wear and so on) can be refinanced and brought up to date.