physical capital
tools, machinery, computers, and other equipment that are needed for the production of goods and services: money spent by business firms on physical capital.
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In the United States and other advanced economies, labor is taxed at a much higher rate than the physical capital and knowledge capital required to produce goods, encouraging investments that use capital and save labor.
Will there be enough good jobs? | Laura D’Andrea Tyson, PhD ’74 | April 28, 2021 | MIT Technology ReviewHe was thirty years old, with his full account of mental and physical capital.
Mark Twain, A Biography, 1835-1910, Complete | Albert Bigelow PaineEvery hour that a child sleeps is just so much investment of physical capital for years to come.
Bits About Home Matters | Helen Hunt JacksonTo render Paris the physical capital of Europe is, through his own confession, "one of his constant dreams."
The Origins of Contemporary France, Volume 5 (of 6) | Hippolyte A. TaineShe could not sleep and was so fatigued that she believed herself at the end of her physical capital.
Outwitting Our Nerves | Josephine A. Jackson and Helen M. Salisbury
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