GOALS leadership believes this will produce socially productive value, supplanting costly anti-social behavior involving graffiti vandalism in surrounding neighborhoods.

Shortly before taking up his appointment he said, "We will be adhering to the school credo of engaging individuals in socially productive work, at the same time delivering on quality education."

We could take a portion, just a portion of what we're spending to blow up and then repair, in other countries and use that same spending for a socially productive purpose.

She wants a little socially productive mediocrity.

You give people the resources they need and socially productive, rational behavior will usually follow.

The money not created by the Bank was carefully regulated through credit control and only lending on socially productive activities such as mortgages or business investment was allowed.

If you were a socially productive Civil War buff rather than an insignificant shrink, you'd know it, too.

But as anyone knows who has gazed upon the empty skyscrapers thrown up during the mid-1980's construction boom, driven by real-estate tax breaks, all investment is not socially productive investment.

Freudian theory describes sublimation as a process in which primitive urges coming from the id are transformed into socially productive activities that lead to gratification of the original urge.

"The challenge of market design," McMillan states, "is to devise mechanisms, or to allow mechanisms to evolve, that channel the pursuit of profits in a socially productive direction."