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“It is not from their intrinsic nature that goods gain the character of economic goods, but through their relation to men and through their…

— Sandye Gloria-Palermo

Possessing utility, commodities derive their exchangeable value from two sources: from their scarcity, and from the quantity of labour required to obtain them.

— David Ricardo

“The values of commodities are directly as the times of labour employed in their production, and are inversely as the productive powers of the…

— Karl Marx

Interdependence must be transformed into solidarity based upon the principle that the goods of creation are meant for all. That which human industry produces…

— Pope John Paul II

The values of commodities are directly as the times of labor employed in their production, and are inversely as the productive powers of the…

— Karl Marx

To each, therefore, must be given his own share of goods, and the distribution of created goods, which, as every discerning person knows, is…

— Pope Pius XI

Goods are theirs that enjoy them.

— George Herbert

“this fetishism of the world of commodities arises from the peculiar social character of the labor which produces them.”

— Juliet Schor

The value of any commodity, therefore, to the person who possesses it, and who means not to use or consume it himself, but to…

— Adam Smith

The actual division of labor must be reflected in the division of the rewards (and prices, which is the way the consumer gets rewarded).

— Mariana Mazzucato

If the quantity of labour realized in commodities, regulate their exchangeable value, every increase of the quantity of labour must augment the value of…

— David Ricardo

In a market economy with the division and specialization of labor, people use others as means to achieve their ends. This is the essence…

— Stephan Kinsella