(OPE-L) the intellectual origins of 'simple commodity production' ('einfache Warren-produktion'] ?

From: Gerald A. Levy (Gerald_A_Levy@MSN.COM)
Date: Mon Sep 06 2004 - 11:06:25 EDT 

Chris A claims "the truth is that *Marx never used the
term 'simple commodity production' in his life*" and "it is
certain he never referred to the capitalistically produced 
commodity as a secondary derivative form."  Chris also notes
that the only time when the expression 'simple commodity
production'  _did_ occur in _Capital_ was in Volume III but that
this expression was inserted there by Engels (Christopher J. Arthur
_The New Dialectic and Marx's Capital_ Leiden; Boston; Koln: Brill, 
2002, p. 19; emphasis in original).

The question I have is who is the originator of the 
expression 'simple commodity production' and what was the
work where it was first used?  Was it first used by Engels
in _Anti-Duhring_ , the Volume III addition referred to above,
or someplace else?  Is there any reference in the correspondence
of Engels to 'einfache Warren-produktion'? Or, does the expression 
_pre-date_ Engels?  E.g. did Quesnay, Smith, Ricardo, Lassalle,  
Proudhon, etc. ever use it before Engels did?

In solidarity, Jerry

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