But then came agriculture and other sources of economic surplus.

The economic surpluses which result cannot be absorbed through consumers spending more.

The measure of merit is the economic surplus created in housing."

I suppose they simply haven't the economic surplus to maintaIn armies in the field."

The economic surplus is most simply the difference between "what a society produces and the costs of producing it.

The chief economic problem is in fact using up the economic surplus: many high-quality goods actually cost less than those of lower quality.

Mass slavery also requires economic surpluses and a high population density to be viable.

There is not enough "economic surplus" in my own society to allow such "luxuries" as those of the past could "afford" to have then.

At the same time, it would be expedient to take countercyclical measures and create economic surpluses.

The diagram on the right illustrates both effects, using the standard approach based on the notion of economic surplus.

Economists see this as determining how the transaction's total economic surplus will be divided between consumers and producers.

In aboriginal times they lived at a minimum subsistence level with no economic surplus on which a more elaborate social structure could be built.

By economic surplus is meant all production which is not essential for the continuance of existence.

Areas of economic surplus, above self sustaining bases, were few in relation to the area under Ottoman rule.

Aneurin Bevan once said that freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

To restore a sound ecology-oftener, to create a new one-and then maintain it, that took more than a wish and an economic surplus.

Eventually Vietnamese would outnumber Lao and produce an economic surplus.

The economic surplus begins when an economy is first able to produce more than it needs to survive, a surplus to its essentials.

Whole nations would need to be conscripted, their entire economic surplus diverted, just to build the components of the tools which make this thing possible."

Opponents of the kicker law claim it prevents Oregon from retaining an appreciable economic surplus.

John B. Davis (ed), The economic surplus in advanced economies.

A negative excess demand is synonymous with an excess supply, in which case there will be an economic surplus of the good or resource.

The actual and potential economic surplus generated exceeds the existing outlets for investment and capitalist consumption.

Anders Danielson, The economic surplus : theory, measurement, applications.

The main dilemma modern capitalism would face, they argued, would be how to find profitable investment outlets for the economic surpluses created by capital accumulation.

It has a pear-like shape and an Edison screw base.

In many other countries the Edison screw (E) base is used for lighting.

The medium Edison screw has seven threads per inch, or about 3.6mm per thread.

Edison screw fittings are not as common, but may be found on some imported lighting equipment, particularly from Southern Europe.

Most Edison screws have a right-hand threading that tightens when the lamp is turned clockwise.

Medium Edison screw (MES) bulbs for 12 V are also produced for recreational vehicles.

Edison screw lampholder adaptors (for NEMA 1-15 plugs) are still easily found and commonly used in the Americas.

Today most incandescent lamps for general lighting service use an Edison screw in candelabra, intermediate, or standard or mogul sizes, or double contact bayonet base.

These usually come with an Edison screw (ES) connection, rather than the more common bayonet cap (BC) with the two familiar side pins.

The bulb is inserted and removed with straight in or out force, without turning as with a bayonet mount or Edison screw, on certain bi-pin light sockets.

The Edison screw base became popular and eventually displaced competing standards for lamp bases for general lighting purposes in several places, especially in North America and continental Europe.

The Edison screw socket was used as an outlet (such as for toasters) when mains electricity was still mainly used for lighting, and before wall outlets became common.

The cost of a CFL with a GU24 fitting is approximately equal to a CFL with an Edison screw fitting.

In the U.S., the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 requirement for greater energy efficiency only applies to the medium Edison screw, all other being considered "specialty" lamps.

A GU24 connector is fitting for compact fluorescent light bulbs (CFL) that uses a bayonet mount bi-pin connector instead of the Edison screw fitting used on many incandescent light bulbs.

The GU24 fitting is not compatible with older light fixtures designed for incandescent bulbs, whereas a CFL with an Edison screw fitting is a direct replacement for an incandescent bulb.

Some adapters for wall outlets use an Edison screw, allowing a light socket to become an ungrounded electrical outlet (such as to install Christmas lights temporarily via a porch light), or to make a pull-chain switch with two outlets, or to split it for two lamps.

On September 24, 2009 the DOE announced that Philips Lighting North America was the first to submit lamps in the category to replace the standard 60 W A-19 "Edison screw fixture" light bulb, with a design based on their earlier "AmbientLED" consumer product.

French plugs that need to be polarized are configured in such a way as to only be inserted correctly in grounded sockets, however the old 2 pin socket is inherently dangerous with equipment that should be polarized for example table lamps with a cord switch and Edison screw lamp.