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.

And there are people, particularly jewelers, who often want money as a raw material for consumption goods.

From The Value of Money by Anderson, Benjamin M.

But, given these wants, and given their marginal intensities, we are only at the beginning of our explanation of the economic values of the consumption goods.

From The Value of Money by Anderson, Benjamin M.