consumer goods production
31Consumer Confidence Index — The U.S. Consumer Confidence Index (CCI) is an indicator designed to measure consumer confidence, which is defined as the degree of optimism on the state of the economy that consumers are expressing through their activities of savings and… …
32Consumer complaint — This article is about Reports filed by consumers who are dissatisfied with a business transaction and/or interaction.. For the consumers in biology, see Heterotroph …
33consumer society — A term sometimes applied to modern Western societies, which suggests that they are increasingly organized around consumption (of goods and leisure), rather than the production of materials and services. The usual list of late twentieth century… …
34consumer society — /kənˌsjumə səˈsaɪəti/ (say kuhn.syoohmuh suh suyuhtee) noun a society, as most Western ones, which is oriented towards the production and consumption of goods on a vast scale …
35producer goods — Econ. goods, as machinery, raw materials, etc., that are used in the process of creating consumer goods. [1950 55] * * * or capital goods or intermediate goods Goods manufactured and used in further manufacturing, processing, or resale.… …
36Mass production — This article is about large scale production. For the Iggy Pop piece, see The Idiot (album). For the American funk band, see Mass Production (band). Mass production (also flow production, repetitive flow production, series production, or serial… …
37United States Consumer Price Index — The U.S. Consumer Price Index is a time series measure of the price level of consumer goods and services. The Bureau of Labor Statistics, which started the statistic in 1919, publishes the CPI on a monthly basis. The CPI is calculated by… …
38producer goods — noun plural : goods (as tools and raw material) that are factors in the production of other goods and that satisfy wants only indirectly called also auxiliary goods, instrumental goods, intermediate goods; compare consumer goods * * * Econ. goods …
39Capitalist mode of production — In Marxian economic discourse the capitalist mode of production refers to the socio economic base of capitalist society which began to grow rapidly in Western Europe from the end of the eighteenth century, and later extended to most of the world …
40Capital Goods — 1. Any tangible assets that an organization uses to produce goods or services such as office buildings, equipment and machinery. Consumer goods are the end result of this production process. 2. The sector of the economy that includes capital… …
