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Marx’s precursors in the nineteenth century widened the critique of markets to consider competition and profit. By asserting that exchange creates commodities he attempted to explain how markets are exploitative. Ruskin and Morris also provided important critiques.
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Rutherford, D. (2016). Nineteenth-Century Critics. In: Suspicions of Markets. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40808-8_5
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