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Economics Quote by Karl Marx

“The values of commodities are directly as the times of labour employed in their production, and are inversely as the productive powers of the labour employed.” quote by Karl Marx — Download Open image

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

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