Consumption Quote by Kenneth E. Boulding Download Open image “The process of consumption is the final act in the economic drama.” — Kenneth E. Boulding ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Consumption Drama Economic Economics Finals Process
Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production; and the interest of the producer ought to be attended to only so far… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production; and the interest of the producer ought to be attended to, only so far… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Economists use the word consume to mean "utilize economic goods," but the Shorter Oxford Dictionary's definition is more appropriate to ecologists: "To make away… — Alan Thein Durning Copy Share Image
Consumption is a social relationship, the dominant relationship in our society-one that makes it harder and harder for people to hold together, to create… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is inherent in the nature of the capitalistic economy that, in the final analysis, the employment of the factors of production is aimed… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
We are sacrificing ourselves for our ready-made goods; we are consumers and live in such a way that the means may consume the end. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
[The consumer is] the supreme mover of economic order... for whom all goods are made and towards whom all economic activity is directed. — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
Production for the sake of production - the obsession with the rate of growth, whether in the capitalist market or in planned economies -… — Felix Guattari Copy Share Image
Consumerism is, quite precisely, the consuming of life by the things consumed. It is living in a manner that is measured by having rather… — Richard John Neuhaus Copy Share Image
This new economy that's just emerged has a new central economic actor. It's not the worker, the person who produces, nor the person who… — Paul Saffo Copy Share Image
...the tragedy of consumerism: one acquires more and more things without taking the time to ever see and know them, and thus one never… — Brian D. McLaren Copy Share Image
[In science any model depends on a pre-chosen taxonomy] a set of classifications into which we divide the enormous complexity of the real world...… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
If we saw tomorrow's newspaper today, tomorrow would never happen. — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
It is clear that the building of models is not a purely mechanical process but requires skill of a high order - not merely… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
Even personal tastes are learned, in the matrix of a culture or a subculture in which we grow up, by very much the same… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
In view of the importance of philanthropy in our society, it is surprising that so little attention has been given to it by economic… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
Humble, honest, ignorance is one of the finest flowers of the human spirit — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
[The question for the behavioral disciplines is simply] what is better, and how do we get there? — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
[Even the mechanism can be endowed with an image. Thus] the thermostat has an image of the outside world in the shape of information… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
Economic problems have no sharp edges. They shade off imperceptibly into politics, sociology, and ethics. Indeed, it is hardly an exaggeration to say that… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
The world moves into the future as a result of decisions, not as a result of plans. Plans are significant only insofar as they… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
Mathematicians themselves set up standards of generality and elegance in their exposition which are a bar to understand. — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
The concept of need is often looked upon rather unfavorably by economists, in contrast with the concept of demand. Both, however, have their own… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
Life as we know it is fundamentally unsatisfying. I think most folks feel this to be true. They know that a life of aimless… — Michael Yates Copy Share Image
Is the minor convenience of allowing the present generation the luxury of doubling its energy consumption every 10 years worth the major hazard of… — David R. Brower Copy Share Image
The obsessive documentation is itself adjacent to hyper-consumption in our society. The desire to just have everything all the time and adjacent to that… — Ted Leo Copy Share Image
Over-consumption is a cancer eating away at our spiritual vitals. It distances us from the great masses of broken bleeding humanity. It converts us… — Richard J. Foster Copy Share Image
The Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Program is a very effective way to raise awareness and consumption of two vital food groups that are sometimes… — Michael Dean Crapo Copy Share Image
On the whole it may be observed, that the specific use of a body of unproductive consumers, is to give encouragement to wealth by… — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
Gentlemen, comrades, do not be concerned about all you hear about Glasnost and Perestroika and democracy in the coming years. They are primarily for… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
Americans don't eat horses. They are not raised as food animals and they are treated with chemicals that render them unsafe for consumption. The… — Willie Nelson Copy Share Image
You might think of consumption as a fairly passive activity, but buying new products and services is actually pretty risky, at least if you… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
“Every society clings to a myth by which it lives. Ours is the myth of economic growth.” — Tim Jackson Copy Share Image
You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
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