Lexicographical Neighbors of Oversaving
Literary usage of Oversaving
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Economic Review by Christian Social Union (Great Britain), Oxford University Branch (1899)
"The fact of oversaving, as exhibited in a normal excess of loanable capital,
cannot be got rid of by such reasoning. The phenomenon exists, and Professor ..."
2. Practical Banking: With a Survey of the Federal Reserve Act by Ralph Scott Harris (1915)
"Hobson (The Industrial System) has a theory of "oversaving." Since a considerable
proportion of capital invested and wealth produced belongs to a ..."
3. Literary Friends and Acquaintance: A Personal Retrospect of American Authorship by William Dean Howells (1900)
"This is oversaving it, of course, but the truth is in what I say. There was never
a more devoted husband, and he was content to let his devotion to the sex ..."
4. The Evolution of Modern Capitalism: A Study of Machine Production by John Atkinson Hobson (1902)
"The objection, then, which takes the form that oversaving cannot exist, because
the worst investments made with open eyes must be productive of more than ..."
5. Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by William B. Dana (1856)
"... are engaging the cargo, taking out the clearance, paying tolls, oversaving
the discharge oí' freight, and supervising the whole business of the boat. ..."
6. History of Prussia by Herbert Tuttle, Herbert Baxter Adams (1896)
"... said of him in the " Gospel Messenger," published at Syracuse, New York: " He
seemed to be always afraid of overdoing or oversaving. ..."
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