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Definition of Economic consumption
1. Noun. (economics) the utilization of economic goods to satisfy needs or in manufacturing. "The consumption of energy has increased steadily"
Category relationships: Economic Science, Economics, Political Economy
Specialized synonyms: Conspicuous Consumption
Generic synonyms: Demand
Derivative terms: Use
Lexicographical Neighbors of Economic Consumption
Literary usage of Economic consumption
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Welfare as an Economic Quantity by George Pendleton Watkins (1915)
"The necessary foundation for a theory of economic consumption would seem to be
a law or laws of this quantitative variation of utility. ..."
2. Principles of Political Economy by Wilhelm Roscher, John Joseph Lalor, Louis Wolowski (1878)
"Oek., distinguishes economic consumption, un-economic and anti-economic consumption.
(Nat. Oek., I, 147.) 1 We should not, indeed, say, on this account, ..."
3. Problems of American Democracy: Political, Economic, Social by Henry Reed Burch, Samuel Howard Patterson (1922)
"A standard of living may be regarded as a measure of economic consumption, that
Meaning of . is, as the amount of wealth which an individual of living. ..."
4. Journal of Horticulture, Cottage Gardener and Country Gentlemen (1874)
"economic consumption OF COAL. THE Exhibition of appliances for the economic
consumption of coal, which hos been formed in the Peel Park, Salford, ..."
5. Introduction to Sociology by Arthur Fairbanks (1896)
"The possibility of the development of exchange, and of economic consumption, lies
just here; as production for a market develops and controls industrial ..."
6. The College Man and the College Woman by William De Witt Hyde (1906)
"... of economic functions which assigns in this broad way the direction of economic
production to men, and the ordering of economic consumption to women. ..."
7. Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1890)
"This is to ignore the most important fact connected with economic consumption.
What the man of to-day consumes goes far towards determining what the man of ..."
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