Modern business geography

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Identifikator:: 1830562916

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-217337

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Huntington, Ellsworth http://d-nb.info/gnd/117070092; Cushing, Sumner W.

Title:: Modern business geography

Place of publication:: New York [usw.]

Publisher:: World Book Company

Year of publication:: 1930

Scope:: VIII, 352 S.; Ill., graph. Darst.

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Part four. The field of consumption

Collection:: Economics Books

286 Modern Business Geography Fig. 177. Isolated groups of people living in primitive conditions furnish the smallest markets, 1s this family of Ladakhis, a shepherd people of central Asia. They are clad in sheepskins and their food also comes mainly from their flocks. They use almost nothing which they must surchase, except an oceasional weapon or tool made of iron. country people; for the country people usually raise part of their own food; they may also supply part of their own firewood by cutting it in the forest; they generally wear tougher and more durable clothing than the city people; and they do not have so much in the way of lux- uries and amusements. The greatest of all consumers are rich city people in the most progressive parts of the world. Such people buy everything that they consume, for they produce nothing that can be consumed by themselves or others, even when they do the most val- unable work with their brains. Moreover, some of them consume huge amounts of very expensive goods. A man may have several automo- biles; a woman may have twenty or thirty dresses a year; they may live in a huge house, entertain many guests, have a steam yacht, and go to the highest-priced theaters. Clearly the differences in these respects from place to place are enormous, and must be fully understood by anyone who wishes to have a useful knowledge of commercial and industrial geography. Such differences, together with differences in the kinds of products, are the basis of the foreign commerce which is so important in all progressive countries.

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