consumption 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

Capital instruments produce consumption goods, but the value of the consumption goods is the cause of the value of the capital instruments.

From The Value of Money by Anderson, Benjamin M.

This subjective value of money rests on the experience of each individual in making purchases—rests on the prices of consumption goods, determined by the relation between real income and money income.

From The Value of Money by Anderson, Benjamin M.

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 Anderson, Benjamin M.