This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1899 Excerpt: ...of things as commodities or economic goods, the fundamental consideration is their relation to the economic forces of society. Economic goods, as defined by Rodbertus, that is, all things so far as they partake of the nature of an economic good or commodity--are the product of labour; or, to express the matter from the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1899 Excerpt: ...of things as commodities or economic goods, the fundamental consideration is their relation to the economic forces of society. Economic goods, as defined by Rodbertus, that is, all things so far as they partake of the nature of an economic good or commodity--are the product of labour; or, to express the matter from the other side, only labour is productive. This proposition, however, must not be taken as asserting that, as things stand now, the value of commodities is always equal to their cost in labour, or, in other words, that labour is at the present time a necessary measure of value. The theory of value as conditioned by labour is an economic conception, and not an economic fact. Again, it is not asserted that labour is productive of matter or material. The main proposition, which is fundamental in the theories of Rodbertus, has three aspects. 2. In the first place, it implies that only those articles belong to the economic sphere which have cost labour, and the production of which has been attended by toil, small though this may have been in amount. All other articles, however necessary or useful, are natural commodities and lie outside the economic system. An economic system exists in human society, because, while its wants repeat themselves and increase, there is no definite connection, so far as nature is concerned, either as to quantity or quality, between these and the means whereby they can be met; because, to continue the argument, such a connection is provided by labour, and by labour alone, and labour is limited both in force and by time, and is a cost or a restriction on the freedom of man; and, lastly, because society has to economize labour like commodities.1 3. In the second place, the proposition must be taken as asserting ...
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