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The mis-formatted slide here says capital.
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This is a definition that comes down to us
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through the Oxford English Dictionary
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from the early seventeenth century,
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and let me read it in full and then
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we'll boil it down to more manageable terms:
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"Capital is the accumulated wealth of an individual, company, or community
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used as a fund to carry on fresh production;
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wealth in any form used to help in producing more wealth."
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And there's a shift between those two meanings.
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The first is a very broad understanding of capital.
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The second is very close to