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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INDEX Physical return of capital, 185, 186. Piecework, terms used in measure- ment of, 19-20. Pierson, N. G., definition of income adopted by, 102 n.}, 346. Pigou, cited on utility, 47. Pitt, on sinking fund, 243. Pocket cash, risk-meeting function of, 290. Polar coordinates, representation of capital and income by, 393- 395. Practice (physician’s), wealth repre- sented by, 29. Prediction. See Forecast. Preferred stock, 85; share of, to illustrate riskless value, 280. Premium concept of interest, 194— 196, 247, 334; interchange- ability of, with price concept, 196-199, 362-366; represented mathematically and by diagram, 358-361. Price, Richard, financial theories of, 243. Price, definition of, 11, 335; various usages of term (money, market, and appraised or reasonable), 13-14; distinction between quantity, value, and, 14-15; relation of, to past costs and future expectations, 189-190; rate of interest called, of money or capital, 191; money, defined, 335; dimensions of wealth, value, and, 341-344. Price concept of interest, 191-194, 196, 247, 334; interchange- ability of, with premium concept, 196-199, 362-366; mathematical relations between rates reckoned annually, semi-annually, ete., according to, 357-358. Primary (natural) income, 115. Principal, nominal, in case of bonds, 211-212, 215, 217, 335. Probability, a matter of human estimate, not merely mathe- matics, 270-271; coefficient of, 276-277, 331, 335, 403; appli- cation of principles of, to valua- tion of capital, 277-279, 403- 406; theory of, applied to insur- ance, 295. 423 Production, problem of, in con- cept of capital, 55-56, 145- 148 ; cost of, 151, 173-174, 184. Productive processes, 145-148, 335. Productive services, 145. Productivity, physical and value, 185-188, 335. Productivity theory, 187-188. Profits, undivided, 68. Promises of refraining, wealth under- lying, 27, 28. Property, definition of, 18, 325, 335; rights in, 20-22; wealth and, correlative terms and coexten- sive, 22-23, 95-96; types of chief forms of, 26-27; partial and total rights to, 34-37, 95—- 96, 335; necessity of separating from wealth, certificates of property, services, and utility, 38; confusion of ideas regard- ing, 38-40; regulation of in- come by sale of, 127, 244- 245. Property rights, definition of, 18, 22, 324, 335 ; table illustrating exist- ence of wealth behind, 26-27; overlying of, by one another, 31 32; classification of, 36-37; method of determining income from collection of, 130. See Ownership. Pseudo-insolvency, 82. Psychic income, 167-169, 333; measurement of, 177. Purchase, definition of, 11, 335. Purchasing power, use of phrase, 191. Put, option known as a, 299. Q Quantity, measurement of wealth in units of, 8-9; distinction be- tween price, value, and, 14-15; conceived as a fund (capital) or a flow (income), 51-52; measurement of services by, 120- 121; ratio of, of services to quantity of capital yielding those services (physical productivity), 185; dimensions of price, value, and, 341-344. Probability computations, 283-284, 408-410. Quarries, terminable income exempli= fied by, 209, 210.

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