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... produce education , motor vehicles produce locomotion , and medicine produces health care . These outputs are staples that have all the characteristics of commodities . Their production costs can be added to or subtracted from the GNP ...
... produce education , motor vehicles produce locomotion , and medicine produces health care . These outputs are staples that have all the characteristics of commodities . Their production costs can be added to or subtracted from the GNP ...
Page 215
... production of commodities by society and the autonomous production of corresponding use - values . How effective a society is in producing high levels of mobility , housing , or nutrition depends on the meshing of marketed staples with ...
... production of commodities by society and the autonomous production of corresponding use - values . How effective a society is in producing high levels of mobility , housing , or nutrition depends on the meshing of marketed staples with ...
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... production then takes on a negative cast . The arrangement of society in favor of managed commodity production has two ultimately de- structive aspects : people are trained for consumption rather than for action , and at the same time ...
... production then takes on a negative cast . The arrangement of society in favor of managed commodity production has two ultimately de- structive aspects : people are trained for consumption rather than for action , and at the same time ...
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