在市场经济中,一切商品交换都以货币为中介,货币成为一切商品的价值表现形式,从而成为社会财富的一般代表,因而市场经济又被称为货币经济。要理解商品经济或市场经济,就需要理解货币。要理解货币,就需要对货币的起源作一番分析。而货币的起源问题,也就是作为商品价值表现形式的交换价值或价值形式的发展问题。研究这个问题,就是要说明商品的价值表现怎样从最不显眼、最简单的形式,发展到炫目的货币形式。在说 In a market economy, all commodity exchanges are mediated by money, and money becomes the manifestation of the value of all commodities, thus becoming the general representative of social wealth. Therefore, the market economy is also called the monetary economy. To understand the commodity economy or market economy, we need to understand the currency. To understand the currency, we need to make some analysis of the origin of the currency. The problem of the origin of money, that is, the development of the exchange value or value form as the manifestation of the commodity value. To study this question is to show how the value of a commodity can evolve from its most unobtrusive and simplest form to a dazzling form of currency. Said