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  1. dallasfed.org

    Broadly defined, capital is anything that brings our ideas and abilities to fruition and enables us to produce goods and services more efficiently. For example, computers, lasers, robotics, trucks and cranes are all capital goods. A person's education and training, in the sense that they improve productivity, are capital investments.
  2. Deterioration is a loss of productive capacity, while depreciation is a loss of market value. The stock of usable, or productive, capital changes over time as new investments are made and old investments deteriorate. The current year's productive capital stock is equal to last year's stock, less the deterioration of that stock, plus new investment.
  3. stlouisfed.org

    Money is not capital as economists define capital because it is not a productive resource. While money can be used to buy capital, it is the capital good (things such as machinery and tools) that is used to produce goods and services. When was the last time you saw a carpenter pounding a nail with a five dollar bill or a warehouse foreman ...
  4. Wealth and productive stock are linked through the age-efficiency function, with the main difference between the productive capital stock and the wealth stock is that the productive stock is a point-in-time measure (the current productive capacity of past investments), whereas the wealth stock is a forward looking measure (the discounted value ...
  5. mckinsey.com

    Aggregate capital productivity. US businesses have been using physical capital more efficiently and effectively than those in Germany or Japan. Each of the latter two's rates of capital productivity were about 35 percent lower than America's. Automotive sector. Lean production has been critical to higher capital productivity for the automotive ...
  6. socialsci.libretexts.org

    Jul 17, 2023Total factor productivity measures the residual growth in total output of a firm, industry, or national economy that cannot be explained by the accumulation of traditional inputs such as labor and capital. Total factor productivity cannot be measured directly. Instead, it is a residual which accounts for effects on total output not caused by ...
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