Everything about Simple commodity production
Concept in economic theory
Simple commodity production, is a term coined by Friedrich Engels in 1894 when he had compiled and edited the third volume of Marx's Capital. It refers to productive activities under the conditions of what Karl Marx had called the "simple exchange" or "simple circulation" of commodities, where independent producers trade their own products to obtain other products of (approximately) equivalent value. The use of the adjective simple is not intended to refer to the nature of the producers or of their production, but rather to the relatively simple and straightforward exchange processes involved, from an economic perspective. Wikipedia →
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- Read the overview: Simple commodity productionA 5-minute orientation
- Pick up a classic book: Das KapitalThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Simple commodity production and wage labour in the American plains∗Cited 122 times
- Go sideways: Commodity (Marxism)A closely related topic
- Go sideways: Law of valueA closely related topic
📖 Definitions
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🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Simple commodity production and wage labour in the American plains∗
There is nothing simple about simple commodity production
Reflections on the social relations of simple commodity production
MEDIEVAL MARKET TOWNS AND SIMPLE COMMODITY PRODUCTION
A simple algorithm to evaluate supply-chain reliability for brittle commodity logistics under production and delivery constraints
Forms of production in practice: Fresh approaches to simple commodity production
From rubber estate to simple commodity production: Agrarian struggles in the Northern Bolivian Amazon
There Is Nothing Simple About Simple Commodity Production
📚 Books worth reading
Das KapitalKarl Marx · 1867
The Pure Theory of CapitalFriedrich A. von Hayek · 1941
Art since 1900Hal Foster, Rosalind E. Krauss · 2004- 📕CapitalGrabriel Deville, Víctor Ares · 1952
Making Cents Out of Knowledge ManagementJay Liebowitz · 2008
The American DeficitHelen P. Rogers · 1986- 📕Persistence of simple commodity production in agriculture: the case of tobacco producers in Aegean TurkeyMustafa Koc · 1989
Zapotec stoneworkersScott Cook · 1982
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