economic good

American  

noun

1. a commodity or service that can be utilized to satisfy human wants and that has exchange value.

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Example Sentences

Will Gonzalez, executive director of Ceiba, a non-profit organization in Philadelphia that promotes the economic good of the Latino community, took the long view.

From Washington Times • Dec. 26, 2022

Farnsworth had the right ideas, but lacked the economic good luck required to make the most of them in a capitalist society.

From Salon • Sep. 24, 2022

For miners and their families, economic good times—when lead production spiked—may have also spurred devastating health effects, says Loveluck, who is part of an ongoing study of Castleton skeletons.

From Science Magazine • Mar. 30, 2020

Despite the fact that homeownership has been promoted as a universal economic good since the Depression, the trend toward rentals might be a good one.

From New York Times • Jan. 2, 2013

Individual spontaneity is thus the root of economic good; and the real justification of the state is the protection it affords to this impulse.

From Political Thought in England from Locke to Bentham by Laski, Harold Joseph