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

Of course, not all of retail trade is in consumption goods.

From The Value of Money by Anderson, Benjamin M.

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.

On the other hand, those who are in receipt of large incomes cannot use more than a limited amount of consumption goods.

From The American Empire by Nearing, Scott