The phrase "commodity form" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used in economic or philosophical discussions to refer to the way goods are represented and exchanged in a market.
Example: "In Marxist theory, the commodity form is essential for understanding the dynamics of capitalism."
Alternatives: "market form" or "goods representation".
The album was a trenchant critique of the commodity form in the form of an irresistible commodity.
Blogger Richard Hall gives his views in a lengthy but interesting post, taking issue with the way that in the drive to improve computer science teaching "education is subsumed under the dictates of profitability, competitiveness and the commodity form".
The pope's denunciation of the way in which "human beings are themselves considered consumer goods" was much more thoroughly anticipated in Marx's brilliant analysis of the commodity form which saw this process as central to capitalism, not merely an unhappy side effect of poor regulation.
The ideas of Karl Marx are currently making an intellectual comeback, but it is less well understood that the entire philosophical basis of his book Capital: A Critique of Political Economy rests on the mysteries of the commodity form of human exchange and the powers it confers on ordinary objects.
"Reification" refers to "the structural process whereby the commodity form permeates life in capitalist society".
In capitalist societies, the commodity form even becomes the dominant form of objectivity itself (Gegenständlichkeitsform, a Neo-Kantian term).
I look at the thick entanglements of an increasingly financialized social realm, film content, speculative commodity forms, and a penchant for wagering in late colonial Bombay.
Others are curiously similar to commodity forms.
The core of this argument is the claim that the dominance of commodity forms in the economic sphere must necessarily lead to the dominance of rational calculation and formal reason in society as a whole.
It should be noted that the nutrient availability data used in this study are measured at the aggregate level, based on foods in their commodity forms, and may not be accurate reflections of the nutrient changes that would occur at the consumer level.
Although Italy is not self-sufficient agriculturally, certain commodities form an important part of the export market.
