"Material goods consist of useful material things, and of all rights to hold, or use, or derive benefits from material things, or to receive them at a future time."
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"In the absence of any short term in common use to represent all desirable things, or things that satisfy human wants, we may use the term Goods for that purpose."
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"Though a simple book can be written on selected topics, the central doctrines of economics are not simple and cannot be made so."
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"Again, most of the chief distinctions marked by economic terms are differences not of kind but of degree."
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"And very often the influence exerted on a person's character by the amount of his income is hardly less, if it is less, than that exerted by the way in which it is earned."
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"The hope that poverty and ignorance may gradually be extinguished derives indeed much support from the steady progress of the working classes during the 19th century."
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"But if inventions have increased man's power over nature very much, then the real value of money is better measured for some purposes in labour than in commodities."
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"All labour is directed towards producing some effect."
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"Individual and national rights to wealth rest on the basis of civil and international law, or at least of custom that has the force of law."
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