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In economics, capital or capital goods or real capital
refers to factors of production used to create goods or ser-
vices that are not themselves significantly consumed
(though they may depreciate) in the production process.
Capital goods may be acquired with money or financial
capital. In finance and accounting, capital generally refers
to financial wealth, especially that used to start or main-
tain a business.
Capital in narrow and broad
uses
In classical economics, capital is one of three (or four, in
some formulations) factors of production. The others are
land, labor and (in some versions) organization, entre-
preneurship, or management. Goods with the following
features are capital:
•
It can be used in the production of other goods (this is
what makes it a factor of production).
•
It was produced, in contrast to "land," which refers to
naturally occurring resources such as geographical
locations and minerals.
•
It is not used up immediately in the process of
production unlike raw materials or intermediate
goods. (The significant exception to this is
depreciation allowance, which like intermediate
goods, is treated as a business expense.)
These distinctions of convenience carried over to neo