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Goods and Commodities

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Towards the end of the 1950s, Harry Johnson produced the following theorem on value theory:

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Milgate, M. (2018). Goods and Commodities. In: The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95189-5_1031

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