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 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 Anderson, Benjamin M.

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 Leacock, Stephen

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 Anderson, Benjamin M.