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Accumulated capital is essential to supporting and increasing the division of labor and productive improvement.
Accumulated capital and skill within the country itself are pushing on all sides to now undertakings, and both are flowing in from Europe, and even from America, with all the improved appliances of the most modern science and ingenuity, to give a fresh and increased impulse to the business.
Denying the centrality of accumulated capital, and turning instead to the accumulation of ideas, McCloskey posits "betterment" at the core of, well, how we became bourgeois.
Until three or four years ago, oil and mineral producing countries were advised to save resource revenues abroad according to some version of the permanent income hypothesis, which posits accumulation of foreign savings until returns on accumulated capital are sufficient to provide an even future revenue stream.
The feature of this development that distinguished capitalism from previous systems was the use of accumulated capital to enlarge productive capacity rather than to invest in economically unproductive enterprises, such as pyramids and cathedrals.
This power was based on accumulated capital.
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Instead, Piketty argues, the default setting of capitalism is to accumulate capital for the already wealthy, thus widening the gap between the richest in society and the rest of us – even in countries that have a strong welfare state.
How can they accumulate capital in the absence of collateral?
Using the privatization of property, they will accumulate capital, enough for generations of their relatives.
But there is nothing to stop households accumulating capital by saving.
Can they change their mind-sets and lifestyles in order to accumulate capital and work down debt?
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