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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Discount curve (Exponential curve), 203-204, 223-224, 331-332; ap- plications of, 206-208, 272, 284 287, 303-309, 317-322, 360-361, 378, 380-381, 391-394. Discount paper, banks’, 204. Disservices, definition of, 20, 119- 120, 325, 332; enumeration of, 120; measurement of, 120-121; examples of, 123; ‘‘necessary evils,” 123; one phase of, and services termed ‘interactions,’ 144; transformations of wealth from one point of view are, 146. Distribution curve of incomes, 142. Distribution ledgers, 142, 143. Disutility, criticism of term, 42. Dividends, effect of payment of, on capital account, 75; payment of, out of capital, 75, 256; variability of, 281-282, 406- 407. “Doses’’ of capital, 185. Double counting, fallacy of, in cen- cept of income, 107-108, 113- 115, 116, 347, 350; economists’ attempts to avoid, 109-112. Double entry bookkeeping, 144, 159, 325-326. Double taxation, 39, 97-98, 250-253, 255. Du Cange, Dufresne, definition of capital by, 62. E “Earning power’’ of stock, 71. Earnings (Earned income), defini- tion of, 234, 333; distinction between realized income and, 234-236, 247-253, 327-328, 353; excess of, over income, equals in- crease of capital, 237-238, 328. Edgeworth, F. Y., definition of in- come by, 102 n.!; cited, 410 n. Elements of income or outgo, 121. Emery, H. C., cited on speculations, 300. Endorsement, influence of, in re- ducing risk, 289. Engel, human beings counted as wealth by, 5 n.2, 17. England, bankruptey laws in, 83; income taxation in, 253, 401. Enjoyable income, 105, 112-113, 118, 325-326. 25 INDEX Enjoyable objective services:(‘Con- sumption’’), Snumeion of, 165. J Exchange of wealth, 10, 11 ga! 49, Lad 332; analysis of an, 158-159; 12.2 Expense, definition of, 119-120, 332mwemse’ Exponential curve. See Discount curve. F Factor’s agreement, property right represented by, 28. Fee simple, rights in, 23; wealth underlying, 26; definition of, 37; an asset having no counter- part liability constitutes a, 95. § Fetter, F. A., cited on utility, 47; i definition of capital by, 55; cited { on confusion between quantity i and value of wealth, 56 n.'; use of term ‘‘capital’’ by, 60 n.”; use of economic terms by, 67; concept of income of, 117, 165, 350-351; on distinction between rent and capital, 186 n.". Fictitious person, definition of, 335; accounting of, distinguished from i that of real person, 92, 138-139, § 1 153, 160-161. i Finished products, classification of, 7. i Flow, definition of a, 332. £ Flow of wealth, income conceived as a, 51-52, 101; duration of, 52; rate of, 52, 332. Flux, use of term “capital’’ by, 60; concept of income of, 117. Forecasts, of income from capital, 283-284; by trade journals, 291; speculators experts in, 295; crises caused by a general error in, 296-297. Foreclosure, settlement of bank- ruptey by, 86. Forests, appraisal of present value of, based on future worth, 205; taxation of, 254. France, limited liability in, 83; taxation of forest lands in, 254; government bonds in, 281. Franchise rights, wealth underlying, 26, 29. Franklin fund, accumulation of interest shown by, 225. Fund, definition of a, 332. Fund of wealth, capital conceived as a, 51-52. ss ll

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