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consumption goods

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consumer goods
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Said Pundit Walter Lippmann: ''About half of all consumption goods . . . are bought . . . by the great mass of people who have small incomes.

From Time Magazine Archive

Ever since the end of the nineteenth century, the problem of what to do with the surplus of consumption goods has been latent in industrial society.

From "1984" by George Orwell

That means higher prices for consumption goods, in the interval between the starting of the new enterprise and the time when its finished products are added to the "real income" of the community.

From The Value of Money by Benjamin M. Anderson

For the explanation of the values of consumption goods, then, we need both the socially determined marginal utilities of individuals, and the socially determined weight which these individuals have in our economic system.

From The Value of Money by Benjamin M. Anderson

It is a complex of many individual mental activities, highly institutionalized, and including legal and moral values, hopes and beliefs and expectations, as well as the immediate intensities of men's wants for consumption goods.

From The Value of Money by Benjamin M. Anderson


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