Unproductive Labour and Unproductive Consumption: Historical Review, Contemporary Relevance

Abstract

The welfare of the society…should be measured…by its…condition…its total capital structure, including its human capital, not by its throughput of production and consumption, for the gross national product increasingly includes such unproductive and… ‘maintenance’ items as national defense, …the replacement of unnecessarily shoddy commodities, and so on[3, p. 45].

Citation

Gramm, W.S. (1987), "Unproductive Labour and Unproductive Consumption: Historical Review, Contemporary Relevance", International Journal of Social Economics, Vol. 14 No. 3/4/5, pp. 154-166. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb014056