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
It took for granted the existence of individual property, in consumption goods, in capital goods, and, with a certain hesitation, in land.
From The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice by Stephen Leacock
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 Benjamin M. Anderson
The economic social values of consumption goods include not merely the values of those goods to the individuals who consume them, but also the values of the individuals themselves in the social scheme of things.
From The Value of Money by Benjamin M. Anderson
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