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[5] Rollingrock: Commodities These are goods that are for exchange, not for personal
consumption. Thus if I grow tomatoes to eat with my dinner, then the
tomatoes are not a commodity. If I grow tomatoes and sell them in the
marketplace, them they are a commodity. If I spend several hours
producing a thing that no one wants to buy, then that thing is not a
commodity. Again, a thing can have a use value without being a commodity
e.g., air. A commodity must thus have both a use value and an exchange value. |
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