Under the first of these heads we may reckon the loan and use of all consumable or inconsumable property: and under the latter we may place all commissions to transact business, or all trusts to preserve the property of another.
The next topic, that comes under consideration, is the lawfulness of taking interest for the use of a consumable thing; the arguments brought against which appear by no means such as to command our assent.
Taxes upon such consumable goods as are articles of luxury are all finally paid by the consumer, and generally in a manner that is very convenient to him.
If values remain the same, what becomes of prices is immaterial, since the remuneration of producers does not depend on how much money, but on how much of consumable articles, they obtain for their goods.
If all consumable goods were produced at home, and none imported, that would increase exports, and bring more gold and silver into the country.
Some of the best English writers upon commerce set out with observing, that the wealth of a country consists, not in its gold and silver only, but in its lands, houses, and consumable goods of all different kinds.
Taxes upon such consumable goods as are articles of luxury, are all finally paid by the consumer, and generally in a manner that is very convenient for him.
Their expense is taxed, by taxing the consumable commodities upon which it is laid out.
The taxes which it is intended should fall indifferently upon every different species of revenue, are capitation taxes, and taxes upon consumable commodities.
The money a man receives for his work (mental or bodily) or for relinquishing his property in some consumable good, must ultimately be able to purchase for him for his use a fairly equivalent amount of consumable goods.
Consumable goods' is a phrase we would have understood in the widest sense to represent even such things as a journey, a lecture or theatrical entertainment, housing, medical advice, and so forth.
If the shell hits anything, then that further destruction has to be added to the diminution of consumable goods.
Why is one-half our consumable product contrived for consumption that yields no material benefit?
Money values have therefore no other significance than that of purchasing power over consumable goods, and money is simply an expedient of computation.
In the language of economics, the theory of value may be stated in terms of the consumable goods that afford the incentive to effort and the expenditure undergone in order to procure them.
If it leads, indirectly, to an enhancement of serviceability or a heightened aggregate output of consumable goods, that is a fortuitous circumstance incident to that heightened vendibility on which the investor's gain depends.
The hedonistically presumed final purchase of consumable goods is habitually not contemplated in the pursuit of business enterprise.
It has become primarily an instrument of pecuniary commutation, instead of being, as under the earlier normalisation of Adam Smith, primarily a great wheel of circulation for the diffusion of consumable goods.
In other words, he could spend his income in consumable goods, but he could not invest either in productive machinery or in land.
Conversely, the radius of effective action of the ship will be doubled as regards consumable stores if the crew be halved, and will be increased by 50% if the same weight of fuel be carried in the form of liquid instead of coal.
The value of the consumable goods annually circulated within the society being greater, will require a greater quantity of money to circulate them.
The sole use of money is to circulate consumable goods.
The rest must all be sent abroad, and exchanged for consumable goods of some kind or other.
Fleets and armies are maintained, not with gold and silver, but with consumable goods.
To procure both the gold which it wants for its own use, and the consumable goods, would, in this way, employ a much smaller capital than at present.
In consequence of the notion, that duties upon consumable goods were taxes upon the profits of merchants, those duties have, in some countries, been repeated upon every successive sale of the goods.
It is my ambition to have every piece of machinery, or other non-consumable product that I turn out, so strong and so well made that no one ought ever to have to buy a second one.
It is the process of buying materials fairly and, with the smallest possible addition of cost, transforming those materials into a consumable product and distributing it to the consumer.
It is the process of buying materials fairly and, with the smallest possible addition of cost, transforming those materials into a consumable product and giving it to the consumer.
Increase--a sort of royal prerogative, of tangible and consumable homage--is due to the proprietor on account of his nominal and metaphysical occupancy.
A large store ofconsumable goods is thus not a fundamental necessity of a prosperous society.
The aggregate consumable income of the near future will be diminished, but it may be better distributed, and it may consist of things of a different kind.
The argument was exceedingly complex in detail; but it boils down to this: The factories and machinery which are admittedly essential to production were themselves produced in exactly the same way as consumable goods.
It was this that gave rise to the notorious doctrine of the Wages Fund; the notion that the sum which can at any time be paid in wages is equal to the quantity of capital, alias consumable goods, which happens to exist.
The aggregate consumable income of the present is unaffected; the aggregate consumable income of the near future is actually diminished; it is not until at least some years later that the aggregate consumable income is increased.
Hence, some time later, the supplies of consumable things will be diminished, while at a later period still they will be more than correspondingly increased as the result of the assistance of the new durable instruments.
It is the saver who must wait, whose consumption must be postponed to perhaps a distant future; but at no time does his saving result in a smaller income of consumable goods for other people.
The more the community as a whole saves now, the less in the near future will be the aggregate consumable income of the whole community: but not of the remainder of the community, exclusive of the savers.
This hoarding-up of material and consumable commodities, which must necessarily from its nature be restrained within narrow bounds, represents only /the saving/ of man in a state of isolation.
These consumable commodities, and the money which might be exchanged for other consumable commodities, were circulating capital.
The stocks of consumable commodities for the maintenance of labour may still in part exist, but they do not reach the labourer through the usual channels.
The farmer himself cannot realize his profits until he has the proceeds of his work in the shape of consumable goods.
If the farm were given him, he would still be hampered by the same lack of consumable goods to turn at once into larger products.
Capital, as represented by consumable commodities, is the product of labor applied to land, or the natural fruits of the land itself.
So long as industry was limited by the labour of the human body, assisted but slightly by natural forces and working with simple tools, the output of productive energy could seldom outstrip the present demand for consumable goods.
What, on the other hand, would be the effect on consumption of an unequal division of consumable products?
In order to avoid stultification he must also cultivate his tastes, for it now becomes incumbent on him to discriminate with some nicety between the noble and the ignoble in consumable goods.
What is said is not to be taken in the sense of depreciation, but chiefly as a characterization of the tendency of this teaching in its effect on consumption and on the production of consumable goods.
These canons of reputability have had a similar, but more far-reaching and more specifically determinable, effect upon the popular sense of beauty or serviceability inconsumable goods.
The ceremonial inferiority or uncleanness in consumable goods due to "commonness," or in other words to their slight cost of production, has been taken very seriously by many persons.
This indirect or secondary use of consumable goods lends an honorific character to consumption and presently also to the goods which best serve the emulative end of consumption.
It is not only with respect to consumable goods--including domestic animals--that the canons of taste have been colored by the canons of pecuniary reputability.
Consequently a nation may become immensely rich by the constant exportation of specie and importation of consumable commodities.
The relative decrease in the value of consumable income (as compared with the capitalised part) may then permit of the same or even a higher standard of living for this class.
On the one hand, the surplus value which he produces each year either exists in a natural form which renders it unfit for consumption, or, if it takes a consumable form, it is temporarily in the hands of another person.
The relative decrease in the export of immediately consumable manufactured goods from Britain is thus also an expression of the fundamental law governing capitalist development.
Whatever portion of those consumable goods is not employed in maintaining the former, goes all to the latter, and makes a part of the neat revenue of the society, besides what is necessary for maintaining the fixed capital.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "consumable" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
