Capital
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100
This commonly refers to something to do with finance, such as “BLANK markets” or “venture BLANK.”
What is Capital
100
What type of capital describe physical assets provided by nature
What is Natural Capital
100
A resource that regenerates through short-term natural processes
What is Renewable Resource
100
An economic actor’s use of its own funds to make productive investments
What is Equity Finance
100
Resources that are tangible
What is Physical Capital
200
The quantity of something at a particular point in time. This commonly refers to ownership shares in companies.
What is Stock
200
Consists of resources that can be used to purchase goods and services.
What is Financial Capital
200
The stock of this resource can only diminish over time as a result of human use or natural deterioration.
What is Nonrenewable Resource
200
Money borrowed for temporary use, on the condition that it be repaid, usually, in commercial transactions, with interest
What is a Loan
200
Stocks of raw materials or manufactured goods being stored until they can be used or sold
What is Inventories
300
Any activity intended to increase the quantity or quality of a resource over time. This commonly refers to activity such as buying stocks in a retirement account.
What is Investment
300
This requires natural capital for raw material inputs. These include such things as buildings, machinery, stocks of refined oil, and inventories of produced goods that are waiting to be sold.
What is Manufactured Capital
300
Production and consumption levels in modern societies, particularly in industrialized countries, are leading to the depletion of essential natural capital stocks. Thus, it becomes important to determine the extent of what possible resources
What is Substitutability
300
Suppose instead that you need to take out a car loan, instead of paying all cash. As you do not have the ability to use equity finance to buy a car, you must rely on
What is Debt Finance
300
The ways in which human productive activities are structured and coordinated
What is Social Organization
400
The stock of something is measure at a single point in time, whereas flow is measured over what?
What is a period of time.
400
Includes the knowledge and skills that each person can bring to his or her work as well as the physical and mental health that allows people to make use of their knowledge and skills.
What is Human Capital
400
Physical assets commonly lose their usefulness over time, as computers become obsolete, roads develop potholes, and equipment breaks.
What is Depreciation.
400
True or False. Borrowers agree not only to repay the interest (the original amount) of the loan but also to give the lender principal, a charge for borrowing the funds, usually calculated as a percentage of the principal.
What is False
400
Cannot be seen or touched, is less visible but no less important. Some human capital, such as knowledge about economics or biophysics or Chinese art, is a purely what type of capital
What is Intangible Capital
500
What do the three arrows represent in the flows section? (3 answers) Figure 14.1/14.2
What are Additions, Carryover, and Subtractions
500
When you buy something on eBay, you trust that the seller will actually send you the item that you purchased after you pay for it, based on a mutual understanding of how an eBay transaction works.
What is Social Capital
500
When economists speak of “capital” as an input to production, what they usually mean is that stocks of manufactured capital, such as tools, machines, buildings, and infrastructure, yield flows of services, such as making it possible to dig or drill more rapidly, expediting communications and transportation, or provide locations for business activities.
What is Fixed Manufactured Capital
500
Government issued bonds, which are financial instruments, promise the repayment of funds with interest, which are providers of
What is Debt Finance
500
Stock or Flow? What type of Capital?
The fish in a lake.
What is Stock and Natural Capital.