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On the Nature of Capital

Thorstein Veblen

Stanford University

Quarterly Journal of Economics 1908

The knowledge of ways and means is a communal product, 517.—Access to the common stock of technological knowledge is necessary to the production of a livelihood, 524.—With the advance of the industrial arts the possession of material equipment has become a requisite to the effective use of this common stock of knowledge and skill, 527.—Hence the great advantage of owning capital goods, 530; and hence the dominant position of the owner-employer in modern economic life, 535.—Summary conclusion, 541.

DOI
10.2307/1884915
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22 (4)
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517
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