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abstinence theory

noun

, Economics.
  1. the theory that interest is payment for conserving current income.


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Example Sentences

If the abstinence theory is foolish, even more foolish is the notion that profits are the reward of managing ability, the wages of superintendence.

If it is to increase without the labor of its owner, it can only be through the exploitation of the labor of others, so that the abstinence theory in no manner controverts the Marxian position.

But a few years later, at the period of his life to which we have now arrived, the total abstinence theory began to command the public attention.

"Then you do not hold to the entire abstinence theory?"

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