Capital is that part of wealth which is devoted to obtaining further wealth.
From Alfred Marshall
All wealth consists of desirable things; that is, things which satisfy human wants directly or indirectly: but not all desirable things are reckoned as wealth.
Consumption may be regarded as negative production.
Civilized countries generally adopt gold or silver or both as money.
Material goods consist of useful material things, and of all rights to hold, or use, or derive benefits from material things, or to receive them at a future time.
All labour is directed towards producing some effect.
Producer's Surplus is a convenient name for the genus of which the rent of land is the leading species.
Again, most of the chief distinctions marked by economic terms are differences not of kind but of degree.
Slavery was regarded by Aristotle as an ordinance of nature, and so probably was it by the slaves themselves in olden time.
In common use almost every word has many shades of meaning, and therefore needs to be interpreted by the context.
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