"Apart from their work and production, households perform other important economic functions. Most CONSUMPTION occurs within the household. ... In developed capitalist economies, private consumption spending accounts for half or more of GDP."

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Source : Jim Stanford (2008). “Economics for everyone: a short guide to the economics of capitalism”, Pluto Pr

Jim Stanford

#Gdp Quotes #Important Quotes #Half Quotes

“What's interesting about the process of acting is how often you don't know what you're doing.”
“[W]e are not morally bad people for taking carbon and turning it into the energy that offers life to humanity in a world that would otherwise be brutal (think of life before modernity). On the contrary, we are good people for doing so.”
“The challenges in taking any IP into any other platform are best met by empowering the individuals that can work best in that area and that is one of the things that I really admire about Marvel as a company. They go out and find the best people, whether it is to draw a comic book or create a television series or make a movie.”

Source : Source: www.indiewire.com
“My design has always been a derivative of people I meet. I want to translate who they are and their personality into a room.”

Source : Source: www.goodhousekeeping.com
“An outsider's point of view is always handy.”

Source : Pat Oliphant, Harry L. Katz, Sara Day, Library of Congress (1998). “Oliphant's Anthem”, p.37, Andrews McMeel Publishing
“I never called myself a writer because it seemed so pretentious - a writer was what somebody else called you, a title bestowed.”
“This success permits us to hope that after thirty or forty years of observation on the new Planet [Neptune], we may employ it, in its turn, for the discovery of the one following it in its order of distances from the Sun. Thus, at least, we should unhappily soon fall among bodies invisible by reason of their immense distance, but whose orbits might yet be traced in a succession of ages, with the greatest exactness, by the theory of Secular Inequalities.”

Source : "The Planet Neptune: An Exposition and History". Book by John Pringle Nichol, 1848.
“A well-read woman is a dangerous creature.”

Source : Lisa Kleypas (2008). “A Wallflower Christmas: A Novel”, p.91, Macmillan

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