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.

Consumption may be regarded as negative production.

We might as well reasonably dispute whether it is the upper or the under blade of a pair of scissors that cuts a piece of paper, as whether value is governed by demand or supply.

Producer's Surplus is a convenient name for the genus of which the rent of land is the leading species.

All wealth consists of desirable things; that is, things which satisfy human wants directly or indirectly: but not all desirable things are reckoned as wealth.

The love for money is only one among many.

Individual and national rights to wealth rest on the basis of civil and international law, or at least of custom that has the force of law.