This limits their ability to accumulate surpluses for construction work.
Ju/'hoansi do not accumulate surpluses; they get all the food they need, and then stop.
The study of hunter-gatherers, who live for the day and do not accumulate surpluses, shows that humanity can live more or less as Keynes suggests.
This no doubt was due to the incessant search for food and the inability to accumulate surpluses for large-scale feasts.
In 1996, the city was roughly $500 million in debt; last year, it had an accumulated surplus of $1.4 billion.
FOR many, the best that can be expected is an accumulating surplus of renminbi, whose value is questionable.
That brought the accumulated surplus this year to $18.53 billion, up from a surplus of $12.45 billion in the first seven months of 2003.
In September, 2000, when the books closed on the fiscal year, the federal government had the biggest budget surplus in history, and it was predicted that the accumulated surplus for the next decade would be more than five trillion dollars.
Both the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company and the Prudential Life Insurance Company are in the midst of reorganizing into stock-based corporations that are requiring them to pay billions of dollars to policyholders from years of accumulated surplus.
After that, the program will have to draw down the Social Security trust fund, which is not an actual reserve of money but an accounting device tracking the accumulated surplus.
As a result, the retail price around the country has risen while the price paid to the producers has fallen, and the accumulated surplus of unsold leaves on the farms is being snapped up for cocaine production, according to Dionicio Nuñez, of the Yungas Farmers Federation.
