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This is a personal project by @dellsystem. I built this to help me retain information from the books I'm reading.

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leached out of the general circulation

[...] If investors seek speculative gains in price-fixing markets for assets which have no value (such as art objects or currency and carbon futures) instead of investing in value and surplus value creation, then this indicates a pathway by which value can be leached out of the general circulation …

—p.94 Marx, Capital and the Madness of Economic Reason Prices without Values (94) by David Harvey
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costs of circulation in the market

Marx agreed that workers employed in circulation (e.g., in marketing) do not produce value (otherwise he would have to concede that value could be produced by market exchange). They can, however, be a source of surplus value. They are like machines which cannot produce value but whose use can incre…

—p.87 Anti-Value: The Theory of Devaluation (72) by David Harvey
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the future of value production is foreclosed

[...] debt is a claim on future value production that can be redeemed only through value production. If future value production is insufficient to redeem the debt then there is a crisis. Collisions between value and anti-value spark periodic monetary and financial crises. In the long run, capital h…

—p.80 Anti-Value: The Theory of Devaluation (72) by David Harvey
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