All labour is directed towards producing some effect.
Civilized countries generally adopt gold or silver or both as money.
In the absence of any short term in common use to represent all desirable things, or things that satisfy human wants, we may use the term Goods for that purpose.
Again, most of the chief distinctions marked by economic terms are differences not of kind but of degree.
Consumption may be regarded as negative production.
In common use almost every word has many shades of meaning, and therefore needs to be interpreted by the context.