Excerpt from The Consumption of Wealth
There is, moreover, a great need to examine the laws of human enjoyment. Men do not always have the same desire for a commodity. With individuals the change is very slow but from age to age there are important modifications in the demand for commodities. Some pleasures are growing while others cease to have their former power. There seems, also, to be a general direction along which changes in consump tion are forcing mankind, the causes of which must be dis covered before the laws Of consumption can be explained.
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