The nature of capital and income

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Identifikator:: 102659555X

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-82920

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Fisher, Irving http://d-nb.info/gnd/118533541

Title:: The nature of capital and income

Place of publication:: New York

Publisher:: The Macmillan Company

Year of publication:: 1923

Scope:: XXI, 427 Seiten

Digitisation:: 2019

Collection:: Economics Books

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414 Balance sheets, to show accumula- tion of surplus, 69; effect on, of increase or decrease in value of assets, 73-75; interdepend- ence of, of different firms or companies, 87-92; to show methods of balances and couples, 91; to show distinction between accounting of real and of fic- titious persons, 93-94 ; prospects of businesses shown by, 264. Bank deposit rights, wealth under- lying, 27. Bank notes, wealth underlying, 27; nature of property right in, 32, 280; legal regulations govern- ing, to avoid risk, 289. Bank reserves, risk-meeting function of, 290. Bankruptcies, 87-88. Bankruptcy, state of, 82; laws re- lating to, 83; bondholders’ and stockholders’ position in case of, 83-86; settlement of, 86; rela- tion of general crisis to indi- vidual, 297. Banks, national : liability of stock- holders in, 83; investments of, in government bonds, 280-281. Basis of a security, definition of, 329. Bemis, Edward W., cited, 39. Bequests not counted as income, 109. Bernoulli’s Theorem, 267, 275. Bills of exchange, 204-205. Bohm-Bawerk, quoted on attempts to define “capital,” 53-54; con- cept of capital of, 56; cited, 60 n.?; statement that interest is not an element in cost of production, 173-174; cited in connection with productivity theory, 187; concept of interest of, 195, 247; on interactions as preparatory to enjoyable serv- ices, 318. Bondholders, nature of rights of, 31-32, 85; distinction between stockholders and, 85, 288-289; position of, in reorganization after bankruptcy, 85-86; rela- tion of, to risks of enterprises, 289. Bonds, wealth underlying property in, 25, 26; nature of rights of holder, 31-32, 85; capital-value communication of, INDEX earned income of, 231-236; application of depreciation fund to, 242-243; as investments, 277-281; formule for comput- ing value of, 378-382; formula for mathematical value of risky, 403-406. Bond value books, 213-215. Bougand, quoted, 168 n. Branford, Victor, cited, 63 n. Building and loan association, in- come accounts of, 127-128. Bullock, C. J., definition of income by, 349-350. C Call, option known as a, 298. Campbell, A. C, cited on moral effects of insurance, 295 n. Canard, human beings counted as wealth by, 5 n.% Cannan, Edwin, definition of wealth by, 3; cited on definition of capital, 56, n.!; cited in connec- tion with wage fund theory, 59; use of term “‘capital’’ by, 60 and n.7; on concept of income, 102 n.?; savings regarded as income by, 108; concept of income of, 116; on distinction between rent and interest, 186 n.2; confusion of earned with realized income by, 247-248. Capital, concept of, as stock of wealth at an instant of time, 51-52, 324; varying views of, 53-57; relation of labor to, 55; viewed as productive, 56; fancied dis- tinction between land and, 56 n.* ; errors resulting from narrow interpretations of, 57-58; rela- tion of author’s definition to established usage, 60-61; dic- tionary definitions of, 61-62; business men’s view of, 63-65; two senses of, called capital- goods and capital-value, 66-67 ; relation of surplus or undivided profits to, 68-70; original and net, 69, 330; bookkeeper’s vs. market’s estimate of, 70-72; four separate meanings of term applied to person or firm, 72; classification of, 72; nominal of, 211-217, 382; realized vs. and paid-up, 72, 330; payment

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