Commodification and the Construction of Mainstream Australian Economic Historiography Download

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Although Australian economic historians frequently talk about commodities, few stop to question what commodities are, where they come from or why they exist. Left, right and centre the commodity exists within Australian economic historiography as though it is a ‘common sense’, neutral backdrop to the main economic action – growth, expansion, progress and Depression - on centre stage. It seems that because the commodity is of such defining centrality to capitalist society - and recalling Marx’s view of the commodity as capitalism’s ‘economic cell-form’ - most Australian economic historiography has taken this centrality as its own explanation and justification (Marx, 1976:90).

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26 Mar 2007

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26 Mar 2007

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Ben Maddison

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