泉州市2014
高考英语文章突破一轮训练（7）及答案 c7[重庆卷] in his 1930 essay “economic possibilities for our grandchildren”， john keynes，a famous economist, wrote that human needs fall into two classes: absolute needs, which are independent of what others have, and relative needs, which make us feel superior to our fellows. he thought that although relative needs may indeed be insatiable(无止境的), this is not true of absolute needs. keynes was surely correct that only a small part of total spending is decided by the desire for superiority. he was greatly mistaken, however, in seeing this desire as the only source of insatiable demands. decisions to spend are also driven by ideas of quality which can influence the
