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Higher and Lower Desires

A. F. McGoun

The Quarterly Journal of Economics · 1923 · Volume 37 · Issue 2

DOI: 10.2307/1883932

Abstract

Consumption may affect capacity for production. — Satisfaction may be increased by increasing goods, or desires for available goods, 292. — Unsatisfied desire an evil, 293. — Definition of necessaries, 297. — Desire for them ultimately diminishes scarcity, 298. — The time element, 298. — The interests of other people, 299. — High desires increase efficiency, foresight, and altruism, 300.

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