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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.

-Alfred Marshall

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All Wealth Consists Of Desirable Things; That

Alfred Marshall

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.

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