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   Capital accumulation

   Most generally, the accumulation of capital refers simply to the gathering or amassment of objects of value; the increase in wealth; or the creation of wealth.
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   Primitive accumulation of capital

   But in doing so, he had already assumed that there exists a mass of Capital available for investment, and there already exists exploitable labour power. ... capital accumulation
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   Surplus value

   This means, systemically, that the main driving force of capitalism becomes the quest to maximise the appropriation of surplus-value augmenting the stock of capital. ... capital accumulation
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   Law of value

   It aims not to trade goods and services of equivalent value, but instead to make money from the trade (this is called capital accumulation).
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   Exogenous growth model

   Capital accumulation is in turn determined by the savings rate (the proportion of output used to create more capital rather than being consumed) and the rate of capital depreciation.
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   Capital intensity

   Most free market economists argue that capital accumulation was best aided largely by leaving it alone to be determined by market forces.
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   Organic composition of capital

   "In this chapter we consider the influence of the growth of capital on the lot of the labouring class. ... Primitive capital accumulation
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   History of economic thought

   There would be a glut in unsold products, production would be cut back, profits decline until capital accumulation halts in an economic depression.
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   Capitalist mode of production

   Another way of saying this is that production itself becomes directly a source of capital accumulation. ... primitive accumulation of capital
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    Capital (economics)

    Investment or capital accumulation in classical economic theory is the production of increased capital.

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• Capital accumulation,
• Primitive accumulation of capital,
• Surplus value,
• Law of value,
• Exogenous growth model,
• Capital intensity,
• Organic composition of capital,
• History of economic thought,
• Capitalist mode of production,
• Capital (economics)