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HES: QUERY -- "The Commodity"
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[log in to unmask] (Tony Brewer)
Date:
Fri Mar 31 17:18:30 2006
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A quick check on electronic texts shows the word 'commodity' in  
pretty much its modern sense in almost every economic text from  
Missleden, Malynes and Mun (early 17th C) on. So for its origins and  
development you are going to have to look at early, probably medieval,  
material. 
 
Tony Brewer ([log in to unmask])   
 
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