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• CONSUMPTION (Lat. consumere)

CONSUMPTION (See also:

• LAT

Lat. consumere)  , literally, the See also:

• ACT (Lat. actus, actum)

act of consuming or destroying . Thus the word is popularly applied to See also:

• PHTHISIS (Gr. 49Lnns " wasting ")

phthisis, a " wasting away " of the lungs due to See also:

• TUBERCULOSIS

tuberculosis (q.v.) . In See also:

• ECONOMICS

economics the word has a See also:

• SPECIAL

special significance as a technical See also:

• TERM

term . It has been defined as the destruction of utilities, and thus opposed to " See also:

• PRODUCTION (Lat. productionem, from producere, to pro-duce)

production," which is the creation of utilities, a utility in this connexion being anything which satisfies a See also:

• DESIRE

desire or serves a purpose . See also:

• CONSUMPTION (Lat. consumere)

Consumption may be either productive or unproductive; productive where it is a means directly or indirectly to the See also:

• SATISFACTION (Lat. salisfacerc, to satisfy)

satisfaction of any economic want, unproductive when it is devoted to pleasures or luxuries . Its See also:

• PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place in the See also:

• SCIENCE (Lat. scientia, from scire; to learn, know)

science of economics, and its See also:

• CLOSE
• CLOSE (from Lat. clausum, shut)
• CLOSE, MAXWELL HENRY (1822-1903)

close relation with production, are treated of in every See also:

• TEXT (Lat. textum, woven fabric, from texere, to weave)

text-See also:

• BOOK

book, but special reference may be made to W . See also:

• ROSCHER, WILHELM GEORG FRIEDRICH (1817–1894)

Roscher, Nationalokonomie, 1883, and G . Schonberg, Handbuch d. polit . Okonomie, 189o-1891 .