Simple commodity production

The purpose of the essay is studying of essence of commodity production, its features and history of development. Also we should consider simple commodity production in the conditions of all modes of production, to define its role in economic process and urgency in the modern world.
The tasks of essay are:
to study the essence of commodity production;
to consider the history of development of commodity production;
to observe the Marxist theory about commodity production;
to determine peculiarities of simple commodity production;
to investigate simple commodity production in pre-capitalistic modes of production;
to study main contradictions in simple commodity production;
to determine the role of simple commodity production in modern world.

Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3
I. The essence of commodity production . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
1.1 The main features of commodity production . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
1.2 History of development of commodity production and the economic
development in society . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
1.3 The Marxist theory about a basis of development of society – commodity
production . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
II. Simple commodity production as a basis of general commodity economy . . . .9
2.1 Definition of simple commodity production and its peculiarities . . . . . . . . 9
2.2 Simple commodity production in pre-capitalistic modes of production . . 10
2.3 Main contradictions in simple commodity production . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
III. Simple commodity production in modern world . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .15
Conclusions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Literature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18