| Economics - 1896 - 756 pages
...afford him this revenue is called his capital.' Wealth of Nations, Book II., Chapter i. ItiCARDO : — ' Capital is that part of the wealth of a country which is employed in production and consists of food, clothing, tools, raw materials, machinery, etc., necessary to give... | |
| James Wilson Harper - Money - 1896 - 396 pages
...part of a man's stock, accumulated wealth, "which he expects to afford him a revenue." Ricardo says it is "that part of the wealth of a country which is employed in production." M'Culloch holds that 1 Pecunia (from pecus) and capitale or catallum both denoted cattle... | |
| Frank William Taussig - Business & Economics - 1896 - 366 pages
...depend on capital. " Capital," he says in the chapter on Wages in the Principles of Political Economy, •"is that part of the wealth of a country which is employed in production, and consists of food, clothing, tools, raw material, machinery, etc., necessary to give... | |
| James Mark Baldwin - Philosophy - 1901 - 684 pages
...over from the satisfaction of present wants ' (Kneis). (4) From the social standpoint, wealth used as capital is ' that part of the wealth of a country which is employed in production ' (Ricardo). The fourth of these meanings is used by the great majority of economists... | |
| James Allman - Allegories - 1901 - 144 pages
...production.' "David Ricardo, in his Principles of Political Economy, Chapter V, defines capital thus: 'Capital is that part of the wealth of a country which is employed in production, and consists of food, clothing, tools, raw materials, machinery, etc., necessary to... | |
| Melvin Linwood Severy - Social problems - 1908 - 636 pages
...of capital this: " Wealth employed in or available for production." Kicardo defines capital thus: " Capital is that part of the wealth of a country which is employed in production, and consists of food, clothing, tools, raw materials, machinery, etc., necessary to... | |
| William James Ashley - Economics - 1909 - 526 pages
...the distinctive marks of capital as it is known to the business world. " Capital," says Ricardo, " is that part of the wealth of a country which is employed in production, and consists of food, clothing, tools, raw material, machinery, etc., necessary to give... | |
| John Fremont Wilber - Single tax - 1918 - 118 pages
...be directly employed either to support human existence or to facilitate production. "—McCulloch. "Capital is that part of the wealth of a country which is employed in production, and consists of food, clothing, tools, raw materials, machinery, etc., necessary to... | |
| Lionel Danforth Edie, Benjamin Palmer Whitaker - Economics - 1927 - 184 pages
...parts. That part, which, he expects, is to afford him this revenue is called capital." (ADAM SMITH.) (2) "Capital is that part of the wealth of a country which is employed in production, and consists of food, clothing, tools, raw material, machinery, etc., necessary to give... | |
| Karl Marx - Business & Economics - 1993 - 908 pages
...economic relation itself) possible with a capital of 1,000 and 50 workers. See the following passage: 'Capital is that part of the wealth of a country which...and may be increased in the same manner as wealth.'' 61 (Wealth for him the abundance of use values; and, seen from the standpoint of simple exchange, the... | |
| |