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Why does this article present this marxists nonsense as if it was an accurate description of the reality?

High-quality, comprehensive article.

Can someone make "accumulation of capital" link to this?

Thanks, but I think now that the article needs to be re-edited again to improve it, and make it better referenced. It doesn't really conform yet to wikipedia requirements for a good article. I think I worked on the main chunk of this article in 2005 or 2006 or thereabouts, but the whole thing should be reviewed and revised systematically. In particular, I think some of the statements introduced over the years into the article by various editors hardly meet the wiki requirement of "neutrality". Both the positive (sympathetic) and negative (hostile) interpretations of capital accumulation should be clearly stated and distinguished, for the sake of a balanced approach to this topic. So I think at least some of the wording and formulations could do with a good spruce-up. Also, more recent data is available now. I'll have a go at it when I find some time, but I hope that impartial economists or economic historians taking an objective, level-headed approach can also contribute to improving the article. User:Jurriaan 8 April 2012 22:59 (UTC)

Redirect to Capitalism section?[edit]

Should this page redirect to Capitalism#Capital accumulation? Jonpatterns (talk) 09:58, 25 March 2015 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Yes. This article is nothing more than an essay on Das Kapital. It does not meet NPOV criteria, but the content does help make the capitalism article more NPOV.

This article is simply wrong[edit]

In economics capital accumulation is an aggregate increase of "capital stock" (where stock is employed tangible assets as opposed to shares of stock of paper money). The term may be used to refer to an the entire economy. The term may also refer to individual instances of capital stock or capital goods within a firm or as owned by a person or a government. But in such cases it still refers to an expansion in the total amount of productive capacity (perhaps including knowledge (human capital)) within the particular context being addressed.

This article as currently written leans far too much toward "financial capital" as opposed to actual capital goods. And it is being called "Marxist" for that reason. to wit: "Definition of Capital on Marxists.org" .The Trucker (talk) 21:33, 2 September 2015 (UTC)Reply[reply]

glad I'm not the only one who thought this! capital in economics or classical economics refers to manmade factors of production. like factories, or even a taxi cab, or a farmer's hoe. you have the famous triad of land, labour, and capital, with land actually meaning natural resources. capital accumulation is the process by which capital increases over time, for example by savings being channeled via investment into additional capital or by revenue being reinvested in additional capital for the firm.
but yah the vast majority of this article is trash, because apparently the others do not understand the meaning of capital in economics.
and then you have the section like : Demand-led growth models
where all of a sudden they start using the economic definition of capital Meistro1 (talk) 01:39, 30 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

let me propose an alternative opening[edit]

Definition :

In economics, capital refers to any man made factor of production. The earliest forms of capital were prehistoric and perhaps even predating homo sapiens themselves. When homo erectus fashioned crude hand axes for chopping wood or other productive endeavours, capital entered the world.

The classic triad in economics is land, labour, and capital. Here land refers to any sort of natural resources and labour is the expenditure of effort by individuals. Since antiquity, man has been innovating and employing additional forms of technology to increase the efficiency of his labour. This accumulation of capital, along side technological development has led to a steady increase in production and thus continually higher standards of living as well as higher levels of savings and investment.

With the industrial revolution and the massive increase in production associated with the factory system, capital accumulation began to increase exponentially. This translated into a massive increase in workers wages and greatly improved working conditions over the course of many long, hard decades or even centuries in the English case. Industrialization started with England in the mid 18th century, but did not really get under way in American manufacturing until the late 19th century. Meistro1 (talk) 01:56, 30 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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