Economic value emerges through the distance exchange creates between self and object

Evidence

Through exchange, economic process and economic values emerge simultaneously, because exchange is what sustains or produces the distance between subject and object which transmutes the subjective state of feeling into objective valuation. — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 250

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Both aesthetic mood and money-possession liberate the self from resistant reality — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 451; The cash economy correlates social expansion with individual differentiation — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 663; Philosophy and art hold objects at greater distance than science does — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 80 (+27 more)

Related

• Exchange creates value as genuinely as production does. (similarity 0.87)
• Money makes desire instantly operative, dissolving the technical distance to objects (similarity 0.86)
• The money economy makes social action approach pure objectivity (similarity 0.86)
• Exchange itself, not utility or scarcity, creates economic value. (similarity 0.85)
• Economic value arises only through sacrifice and exchange (similarity 0.83)
• Exchange creates value such that the sum exceeds what each party held. (similarity 0.83)
• Both aesthetic mood and money-possession liberate the self from resistant reality (similarity 0.82)
• The cash economy correlates social expansion with individual differentiation (similarity 0.82)
• Value emerges from relational valuation practices, not from objects themselves. (similarity 0.82)
• Exchange stands as the purest form of human interaction and rationalizes daily life. (similarity 0.82)
• Exchange is a change within each party, not a thing between them. (similarity 0.81)
• Money economy reduces persons to quantitative exchange value (similarity 0.81)
• Divergence between value and price arises when one value-quality becomes a single standard. (similarity 0.81)
• Individuality paradoxically emerges through the exchange process that levels it. (similarity 0.80)
• Money expands economic circles and individualizes participants simultaneously (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• Exchange itself, not utility or scarcity, creates economic value. #expands (0.85) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 261