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单词 commodity
释义
commodity

Geography
  • An object of economic value, intended for exchange in a capitalist system, such as labour and money. Commodity chains (commodity networks) are the connections between the production, circulation, and consumption of goods; for example, the chains which bring cut flowers from Kenya to the UK. See A. Hughes and S. Reimer (2004) and J.-P. Rodrigue et al. (2006).


Philosophy
  • A commodity is the form a product takes when the material means of existence are organized through exchange. Commodities have two values: their immediate use in satisfying some need or desire, and their use as vehicles of exchange. Money is simply a measure of the second kind of value, enabling different goods to be commensurated in the market. Commodity fetishism is, in Marxist thought, the process whereby the products of labour come to appear to have an independent value separated from the labour of the people who created them. The role commodities have in exchange disguises the way that their value ought to be entirely derivative from the labour that produces them. In the analysis of Lukács all human relationships come to be treated as commodities, a species of false consciousness characteristic of capitalist ideology.


Economics
  • A standardized good, which is traded in bulk and whose units are interchangeable. Commodities are mostly the output of the primary sector, that is, agriculture and mining, or semi-processed products. Because these goods are standardized, commodity markets can trade spot goods by sample, and can trade in futures and forward contracts in commodities. See also spot market; standardized commodity.


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