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The Two Factors Of Commodities:

  • Use-value
  • Exchange-value

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The wealth of societies in which the capitalist mode of production prevails appears as an 'immense collection of commodities'; the individual commodity appears as its elementary form

KARL MARX

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Exchange-value

Exchange-value appears as the proportion in which a use-value of one kind is exchanged for a use-value of another kind, e.g. a certain quantity of wheat for a certain quantity of iron.

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Use-value

Use-value of a commodity is the aspect of a thing that satisfies human needs.

It makes no difference what the nature of the need is or how the commodity satisfies it.

A thing can also be useful in more than one way, depending on what is known about it.

Use-values constitute the ...

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Hyperinflation is generally considered to occur when inflation is greater than 1000%. 

With hyperinflation, money loses its value so rapidly that nobody wants to use it as a medium of exchange.

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Nothing is more useful than water: but it will scarcely purchase anything.

A diamond on the contrary has scarcely any

use-value but a very great quantity of

other goods may frequently be had in

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