"Productively" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... of Productive and Unproductive is applicable to Consumption as well as to Labor. All the members of the community are not laborers, but all are consumers, and consume either unproductively or productively. Whoever contributes nothing directly or indirectly to production is an unproductive consumer. The only productive consumers are productive laborers; the labor of direction being of course included, as ...
— Principles Of Political Economy • John Stuart Mill
... rapidly.(287) Fixed capital is, indeed, produced and preserved by circulating capital; but it is, for the most part, transformed again into circulating capital.(288) Besides, it is only by means of the latter, that the former can be productively employed.(289) The relative importance of fixed and circulating capital to a country depends upon whether the country is an advanced or only an advancing one. A people with very much and very fixed ...
— Principles Of Political Economy • William Roscher
... that close and vigorous public attention which, in spite of recent revelations, has not been yet secured, and compel society to clearly face the problem of a residue of labour-power which is rotting in the miserable and degraded bodies of its owners, because all the material on which it might be productively employed is ...
— Problems of Poverty • John A. Hobson |
