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These are the most directly and readily observable attributes of commodities (goods and services produced for and exchanged on the market). Both price and quantity relate to a unit (piece, bushel, barrel, pound etc.), established usually by commercial practice as the customary unit of reckoning.
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Brody, A. (1990). Prices and Quantities. In: Eatwell, J., Milgate, M., Newman, P. (eds) Problems of the Planned Economy. The New Palgrave. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-20863-0_32
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