ABSTRACT
2 The utility 1 a thing has for us is the only reason which can make us wish to acquire or possess it. It is thus the utility of money which makes us seek it when we have a commodity to sell. The usefulness of money consists in its uses which we have noted. We have even seen that when in exchange for our commodity, whatever it may be, we obtain in money only a value equal to that of our commodity, it may suit us to conclude the exchange; for although, by supposition, the commodity is worth its price, we can for equal value need a certain commodity rather than another; money for example to pay our workers, rather than a certain fabric which we have all the means of replacing as we manage to sell it.
