An entanglement of wants is a system of wants. Any economic good always points at some other economic good through the process of diminishing need. Also every want connects a good to a need: any insatiable need leads to some deficient good only to reiterate the progression repeatedly with an ever new different concreteness. Along such course of development, the goods reside in a hierarchy of goods outlined by a system of wants and the mode of their consumption.
Historical Backdrop
GEORG HEGEL Philosophy of Right: system of wants.
HERMANN GOSSEN The Development of the Laws of Human Intercourse and the Consequent Rules of Human Action: the theory of pleasure.
FRIEDRICH WIESER Natural Value: Gossen's second law.
JOSEPH SCHOMPETER The Theory of Economic Development; On the Concept of Social Value: social value system.
HENRY MURRAY Explorations in Personality: system of needs.
ABRAHAM MASLOW Motivation and Personality: hierarchy of the relative potency of needs.
JEAN BAUDRILLARD The Consumer Society: the system of wants.