Full text : The nature of capital and income

capital consist of, 152-156;
shown by diagrams to be preparatory
 to enjoyable services, 317—
320.
Interest, is capital and not income,
134-135, 224 ; not an item in cost
of production, 173-174; spurious
distinction between rent and,
186-187 ; crude theories of, 187—
188; nominal principal and,
in case of bond, 211-212, 215,
217; accumulation of, 224-226;
definition of nominal and total,
334.
Interest, rate of: defined, 191,
334; various meanings of, according
 to frequency of payment,
 192-194, 334; payable
annually and semi-annually,192;
premium and price concepts
of, 194-196, 246; interchangeability
 of premium and price
concepts of, 196-199; table
showing equivalent rates of dis-,
 count, capitalization, and, 200;
a link between capital-valueand
income-value, 202, 327; table
of, realized per annum on three,
four, and five per cent bonds, 214—
215; effect on capital-value of
change in, 229, 271-273, 390-393
 ; value-return may be greater
or less than, 229-234; risk as
applied to, 271-274; forecast of,
by insurance companies, 274;
riskless, mathematical, and commercial,
 279-280; on government
 bonds, 280-281 ; mathematical
 relations between annual,
semi-annual, and quarterly rates
conceived in price sense, 357—
358, in premium sense, 358-362;
 mathematical relation between,
 and rate of discount,
364-366; dimensions of, and
rates of discount and capitalization,
 367-368; variation of,
produces two rival concepts of
standard income, 396-398.
Interstate Commerce Commission,
Report of, cited, 39.
Inventory, distinction between quantity,
 price, and value of wealth
shown in an, 14.
Investments, classification of, as

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between amount of capital and
risk of, 277, 408-409.
Irredeemable paper money, wealth
underlying, 27; nature of, 30.
Item of wealth, 5, 337.

J

James, William, quoted, 168 n.
Jevons, W. S., use of phrase ‘final
utility’’ by, 46; concept of
capital of, 54, 57; use of term
“discommodities’” by, 120;
cited on rent entering into cost
of production, 173.
Joint stock companies, capital accounts
 of, 68-70; limited liability
 in, 82-83; shares in, as
example of perpetual annuities,
209.
Joint stock rights, wealth underlying,
26.
Juglar, cited on crises, 296.
K
Kind, income obtained in, 104.
Kleinwiichter, concept of capital of,
54; raw materials regarded as
non-capital by, 63; on income,
102, 351-355.
Knies, on capital, 54, 57, 60.
Knowledge, reduction of risk by
method of increasing, 288, 291;
utility of speculation based on,
298.
Komorzynski, on capital, 65 n.%

L

Labor, economists’ views of relation
between capital and, 55; defined
 as outgo in form of human
exertion, 120, 334; as form of
disservice, 145; appraisal of,
172; in a sense the only true
cost of production, 175; distinction
 drawn between work
and, 175 n.
Labor power, 316-317.
Lafrentz, L. W., use of term
tal’’ by, 63.
Land, regarded as one class of wealth,
5, 334; classification of, 7;
nationalization of, 30-31, 254;
fancied distinction between capi-“capi-





safe and unsafe, 277; relation

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