| 单词 | pleasure economy |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspleasure economy pleasure economy n. Social Sciences (now rare) an economic and social order in which human behaviour is predominantly motivated by positive, hopeful, pleasure-seeking desires. ΚΠ 1896 S. N. Patten Theory of Social Forces iii. § 3. 61 Mankind has but recently developed out of a pain into a pleasure economy. 1910 W. James in McClure's Mag. Aug. 467 A permanently successful peace-economy cannot be a simple pleasure-economy. 1936 Internat. Jrnl. Ethics 47 130 He is uniformly consistent in remembering his ultimate aim to be an adequate pleasure economy. < as lemmas |
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