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1907–2005 Austria

Eric Roll CB, KCMG (1 December 1907 – 30 March 2005) was an economist, public servant, and banker. He was made a life peer in 1977.

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The second difficulty inherent in the contradictory character of the commodity is this: a commodity must have use value, but not for its owner, for if it had, it would cease to be a commodity. Meaning commodities can not be created for or designed by their owners, faulting the definition of commodity and its preconceptions.

A History of Economic Thought (1939)

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