# Commodity
An asset that is used for its [use value](use-value.md) as an input to an economic process.

Examples of commodities include:

* Petroleum
* Wheat
* Pork
* Aluminium

## References
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1. Braun, Benjamin, and Daniela Gabor. 2019. ‘Central Banking, Shadow Banking, and Infrastructural Power’. https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/nf9ms.