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UNPRODUCTIVE CONSUMPTION, OR SPENDING. - Thomas Robert Malthus, Definitions in Political Economy [1827]

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Definitions in Political Economy (London: John Murray, 1827).

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UNPRODUCTIVE CONSUMPTION, OR SPENDING.

60. The consumption of wealth, as revenue, with a view to the final purpose of all production—subsistence and enjoyment; but not with a view to profit.

Chapter XI.

OBSERVATIONS ON THE DEFINITIONS.

[* ] Traité d’Economic Politique, Epitome, vol. ii. p. 506, 4th edit.

[* ] Epitome, vol. ii. p. 507.

[* ] c. iv. p. 83.

[* ] Vol. ii. p. 17. 4th edition.