In other words, the socialistic program leaves the future out of account, and aims simply to satisfy the present generation with a just distribution of material goods.
Industries engaged in producing valuable, durable material objects in wide demand are locally specialised; those engaged in providing bulky perishable non-material goods, or goods in narrow demand, are unspecialised.
But, as we have seen, the modern town is a result of the desire to produce and distribute most economically the largest aggregate of material goods: economy of work, not convenience of life, is the object.
Before receiving each £10 he has caused to come into existence an amount of wealth which, if material goods, may or may not be still in existence; if services, has already been consumed.
Our discussion of consumption goods, rent, and interest has been an analysis of the nature and uses of material goods.
In the variety of human services and inmaterial goods must be sought this unity.
The bearer of the use in one case is material goods, in the other is human agents.
Like all other claims to material goods, it is valid only if it can be realised consistently with human welfare.
For society is made up of individuals, all of whom are of equal worth and importance, and have equal claims to consideration in the matter of livelihood, material goods, and property.
Professor Fetter wishes to confine the term capital to pecuniary capital, or rather to such pecuniary capital as is based on the ownership of material goods.
The destruction in question is a matter of values; that is to say, a lowering of valuation, not in any appreciable degree a destruction of material goods.
There is, of course, no call to understate the importance of material goods or of manual labor.
The former was dictated by high spiritual aims, and the contempt of material goods; the latter is the fruit of over-attachment to material goods, and the envy of their possessors.
Before that period we can only find moral and religious dissertations on such topics as the proper use of material goods, the dangers of luxury, and undue desire for wealth.
They are too often led astray by the immediate object of securing for themselves a large share of material goods.
This applies to material goods generally, and therefore to the greater part of the present economic life of the world.
Capital, according to the employment that can be given it, may be divided into such as affects the production of material goods, and such as affects personal goods or useful relations.
Relations to persons or things which may frequently be estimated just as accurately as material goods.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "material goods" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
