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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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