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Example sentences for "material wealth"

  • His example, however, shows strikingly that the recognition of labor as the source of material wealth by no means excludes the misconception of the particular social form in which labor constitutes the source of exchange value.

  • Adam Smith proclaimed labor in general, and namely in its general social form of division of labor, to be the only source of material wealth or use-values.

  • Through its use-value, every commodity, by its relation to some particular want, expresses only one aspect of material wealth, but one side of wealth.

  • If work considered as distinct from enjoyment be regarded as the end, it is reasonable enough that some term should be used to cover all the forms of material wealth serviceable to that end.

  • Moreover, as an offset against the growth of material wealth, machinery has been a direct agent in producing certain material and moral maladies which impair the health of modern industrial communities.

  • The increase in material wealth of itself tends to increase the wages of the workman.

  • The central thought in economics is the business relation, the relation of men in exchanging their services or material wealth.

  • Since the value of material wealth is the capitalization of the rentals at the prevailing rate of interest, the property tax, so far as it applies to material wealth, should take an approximately equal proportion of incomes.

  • Another great class of material wealth is in the form of tools, machinery, and other agencies for carrying on the industrial processes of farming and of manufacturing.

  • It is, in short, the aim of political economy to investigate the laws which govern the phenomena of material wealth.

  • In this way it may be seen how much more important to the increase of material wealth C are than D, who labor “for the supply of unproductive consumption.

  • By Unproductive Labor, on the contrary, will be understood labor which does not terminate in the creation of material wealth.

  • Unless we know that no clergyman, by inculcating rules of morality and self-control, ever caused an idler or wrong-doer to become a steady laborer, we can not say that a clergyman is a laborer unproductive of material wealth.

  • The incessant accumulation of material wealth, when we do not know how really to enjoy it, is folly.

  • Little beyond a recount of his own daily miseries, and reports of graft and greed, and accounts of vulgar displays of material wealth that he has not and can not have.

  • But neither had ever witnessed such a stupendous display of material wealth as was here unfolded before their astonished gaze.

  • If it is the chief end for a nation to accumulate the largest possible stock of material wealth, it is evident that these are the very people we require to enable us to achieve our object.

  • The number of retail shopkeepers, railway men and others concerned with the transport of goods, domestic servants, teachers, and others not directly occupied in the production of material wealth, has considerably increased of late years.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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