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interwiki-az mw-list-item"><a href="https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kapital%C4%B1n_y%C4%B1%C4%9F%C4%B1lmas%C4%B1" title="Kapitalın yığılması – Azerbaijani" lang="az" hreflang="az" data-title="Kapitalın yığılması" data-language-autonym="Azərbaycanca" data-language-local-name="Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Azərbaycanca</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be mw-list-item"><a href="https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%86%D1%8D%D0%BD%D1%82%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%86%D1%8B%D1%8F_%D0%BA%D0%B0%D0%BF%D1%96%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%BB%D1%83" title="Канцэнтрацыя капіталу – Belarusian" lang="be" hreflang="be" data-title="Канцэнтрацыя капіталу" data-language-autonym="Беларуская" data-language-local-name="Belarusian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Беларуская</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acumulaci%C3%B3_del_capital" title="Acumulació del capital – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Acumulació del capital" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kapitalakkumulation" title="Kapitalakkumulation – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="Kapitalakkumulation" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Dansk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akkumulation_(Wirtschaft)" title="Akkumulation (Wirtschaft) – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Akkumulation (Wirtschaft)" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acumulaci%C3%B3n_del_capital" title="Acumulación del capital – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Acumulación del capital" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akumulo_(ekonomio)" title="Akumulo (ekonomio) – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="Akumulo (ekonomio)" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Esperanto</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kapitalaren_metaketa" title="Kapitalaren metaketa – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="Kapitalaren metaketa" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Euskara</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B4%D8%AA_%D8%B3%D8%B1%D9%85%D8%A7%DB%8C%D9%87" title="انباشت سرمایه – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="انباشت سرمایه" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accumulation_du_capital" title="Accumulation du capital – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Accumulation du capital" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%9E%90%EB%B3%B8_%EC%B6%95%EC%A0%81" title="자본 축적 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="자본 축적" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li 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style="background:#efefef;;color: var(--color-base)">Branches and <a href="/wiki/JEL_classification_codes" title="JEL classification codes">classifications</a></div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Applied_economics" title="Applied economics">Applied</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Econometrics" title="Econometrics">Econometrics</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Heterodox_economics" title="Heterodox economics">Heterodox</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/International_economics" title="International economics">International</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Microeconomics" title="Microeconomics">Micro</a> / <a href="/wiki/Macroeconomics" title="Macroeconomics">Macro</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mainstream_economics" title="Mainstream economics">Mainstream</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mathematical_economics" title="Mathematical economics">Mathematical</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Economic_methodology" title="Economic methodology">Methodology</a></li> <li><a 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class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="background:#efefef;;color: var(--color-base)">Notable <a href="/wiki/Economist" title="Economist">economists</a></div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content"> <div class="excerpt-block"><div class="excerpt"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bernard_de_Mandeville" class="mw-redirect" title="Bernard de Mandeville">de Mandeville</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Quesnay" title="François Quesnay">Quesnay</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Adam_Smith" title="Adam Smith">Smith</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Robert_Malthus" title="Thomas Robert Malthus">Malthus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jean-Baptiste_Say" title="Jean-Baptiste Say">Say</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/David_Ricardo" title="David Ricardo">Ricardo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Johann_Heinrich_von_Th%C3%BCnen" title="Johann Heinrich von Thünen">von Thünen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Friedrich_List" title="Friedrich List">List</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric_Bastiat" title="Frédéric Bastiat">Bastiat</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Antoine_Augustin_Cournot" title="Antoine Augustin Cournot">Cournot</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Stuart_Mill" title="John Stuart Mill">Mill</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hermann_Heinrich_Gossen" title="Hermann Heinrich Gossen">Gossen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karl_Marx" title="Karl Marx">Marx</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/L%C3%A9on_Walras" title="Léon Walras">Walras</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Stanley_Jevons" title="William Stanley Jevons">Jevons</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henry_George" title="Henry George">George</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Carl_Menger" title="Carl Menger">Menger</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alfred_Marshall" title="Alfred Marshall">Marshall</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Francis_Ysidro_Edgeworth" title="Francis Ysidro Edgeworth">Edgeworth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Bates_Clark" title="John Bates Clark">Clark</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vilfredo_Pareto" title="Vilfredo Pareto">Pareto</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eugen_von_B%C3%B6hm-Bawerk" title="Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk">von Böhm-Bawerk</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Friedrich_von_Wieser" title="Friedrich von Wieser">von Wieser</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thorstein_Veblen" title="Thorstein Veblen">Veblen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Irving_Fisher" title="Irving Fisher">Fisher</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arthur_Cecil_Pigou" title="Arthur Cecil Pigou">Pigou</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eli_Heckscher" title="Eli Heckscher">Heckscher</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ludwig_von_Mises" title="Ludwig von Mises">von Mises</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joseph_Schumpeter" title="Joseph Schumpeter">Schumpeter</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Maynard_Keynes" title="John Maynard Keynes">Keynes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Frank_Knight" title="Frank Knight">Knight</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karl_Polanyi" title="Karl Polanyi">Polanyi</a></li> <li><a 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The aim of capital accumulation is to create new fixed and working capitals, broaden and modernize the existing ones, grow the material basis of social-cultural activities, as well as constituting the necessary resource for reserve and insurance.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The process of capital accumulation forms the basis of <a href="/wiki/Capitalism" title="Capitalism">capitalism</a>, and is one of the defining characteristics of a capitalist <a href="/wiki/Economic_system" title="Economic system">economic system</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Definition_of_Capital,_Marxist_Internet_Archive_Encyclopedia_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Definition_of_Capital,_Marxist_Internet_Archive_Encyclopedia-3"><span 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demand</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Surplus_value" title="Surplus value">Surplus value</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Value_(economics)" title="Value (economics)">Value</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wage_labour" title="Wage labour">Wage labour</a></li></ul></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="background:#efefef;text-align:left;;color: var(--color-base)">Economic systems</div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content hlist"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Anglo-Saxon_capitalism" class="mw-redirect" title="Anglo-Saxon capitalism">Anglo-Saxon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Authoritarian_capitalism" title="Authoritarian capitalism">Authoritarian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Corporate_capitalism" title="Corporate capitalism">Corporate</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dirigisme" title="Dirigisme">Dirigist</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Free_market#General_principles" title="Free market">Free-market</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Humanistic_capitalism" title="Humanistic capitalism">Humanistic</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Laissez-faire_capitalism" class="mw-redirect" title="Laissez-faire capitalism">Laissez-faire</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Liberal_capitalism" class="mw-redirect" title="Liberal capitalism">Liberal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Libertarian_capitalism" class="mw-redirect" title="Libertarian capitalism">Libertarian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Market_capitalism" class="mw-redirect" title="Market capitalism">Market</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mercantilism" title="Mercantilism">Mercantilist</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mixed_capitalism" class="mw-redirect" title="Mixed capitalism">Mixed</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/State_monopoly_capitalism" title="State monopoly capitalism">Monopoly</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_capitalism" class="mw-redirect" title="National capitalism">National</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Neoliberalism" title="Neoliberalism">Neoliberal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nordic_capitalism" class="mw-redirect" title="Nordic capitalism">Nordic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anarcho-capitalism" title="Anarcho-capitalism">Private</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Raw_capitalism" class="mw-redirect" title="Raw capitalism">Raw</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Regulated_market" title="Regulated market">Regulated market</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Regulatory_capitalism" title="Regulatory capitalism">Regulatory</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rhine_capitalism" class="mw-redirect" title="Rhine capitalism">Rhine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Social_market_economy" title="Social market economy">Social</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/State_capitalism" title="State capitalism">State</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/State-sponsored_capitalism" class="mw-redirect" title="State-sponsored capitalism">State-sponsored</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Welfare_capitalism" title="Welfare capitalism">Welfare</a></li></ul></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="background:#efefef;text-align:left;;color: var(--color-base)">Economic theories</div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content hlist"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/American_School_(economics)" title="American School (economics)">American</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Austrian_School" class="mw-redirect" title="Austrian School">Austrian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chartalism" title="Chartalism">Chartalism</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Modern_Monetary_Theory" class="mw-redirect" title="Modern Monetary Theory">MMT</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chicago_school_of_economics" title="Chicago school of economics">Chicago</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Classical_economics" title="Classical economics">Classical</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Institutional_economics" title="Institutional economics">Institutional</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Keynesian_economics" title="Keynesian economics">Keynesian</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Neo-Keynesian_economics" class="mw-redirect" title="Neo-Keynesian economics">Neo-</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/New_Keynesian_economics" title="New Keynesian economics">New</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Post-Keynesian_economics" title="Post-Keynesian economics">Post-</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Market_monetarism" title="Market monetarism">Market monetarism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Critique_of_political_economy" title="Critique of political economy">Critique of political economy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Critique_of_work" title="Critique of work">Critique of work</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marxian_economics" title="Marxian economics">Marxist</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Monetarism" title="Monetarism">Monetarist</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Neoclassical_economics" title="Neoclassical economics">Neoclassical</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/New_institutional_economics" title="New institutional economics">New institutional</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Supply-side_economics" title="Supply-side economics">Supply-side</a></li></ul></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="background:#efefef;text-align:left;;color: var(--color-base)">Origins</div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content hlist"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Age_of_Enlightenment" title="Age of Enlightenment">Age of Enlightenment</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Capitalism_and_Islam" title="Capitalism and Islam">Capitalism and Islam</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Commercial_Revolution" class="mw-redirect" title="Commercial Revolution">Commercial Revolution</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Feudalism" title="Feudalism">Feudalism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Industrial_Revolution" title="Industrial Revolution">Industrial Revolution</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mercantilism" title="Mercantilism">Mercantilism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Primitive_accumulation_of_capital" title="Primitive accumulation of capital">Primitive accumulation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Physiocracy" title="Physiocracy">Physiocracy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Simple_commodity_production" title="Simple commodity production">Simple commodity production</a></li></ul></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="background:#efefef;text-align:left;;color: var(--color-base)">Development</div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content hlist"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Advanced_capitalism" title="Advanced capitalism">Advanced</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Consumer_capitalism" title="Consumer capitalism">Consumer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Community_capitalism" title="Community capitalism">Community</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Corporate_capitalism" title="Corporate capitalism">Corporate</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Crony_capitalism" title="Crony capitalism">Crony</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Finance_capitalism" title="Finance capitalism">Finance</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Global_capitalism" class="mw-redirect" title="Global capitalism">Global</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Authoritarian_capitalism" title="Authoritarian capitalism">Illiberal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Late_capitalism" title="Late capitalism">Late</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Capitalist_mode_of_production_(Marxist_theory)" title="Capitalist mode of production (Marxist theory)">Marxist</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Merchant_capitalism" title="Merchant capitalism">Merchant</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Progressive_capitalism" title="Progressive capitalism">Progressive</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rentier_capitalism" title="Rentier capitalism">Rentier</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/State_monopoly_capitalism" title="State monopoly capitalism">State monopoly</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Technocapitalism" title="Technocapitalism">Technological</a></li></ul></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="background:#efefef;text-align:left;;color: var(--color-base)">Intellectuals</div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content hlist"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Adam_Smith" title="Adam Smith">Smith</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Stuart_Mill" title="John Stuart Mill">Mill</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/David_Ricardo" title="David Ricardo">Ricardo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Robert_Malthus" title="Thomas Robert Malthus">Malthus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jean-Baptiste_Say" title="Jean-Baptiste Say">Say</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karl_Marx" title="Karl Marx">Marx</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Milton_Friedman" title="Milton Friedman">Friedman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Friedrich_Hayek" title="Friedrich Hayek">Hayek</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Maynard_Keynes" title="John Maynard Keynes">Keynes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alfred_Marshall" title="Alfred Marshall">Marshall</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vilfredo_Pareto" title="Vilfredo Pareto">Pareto</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/L%C3%A9on_Walras" title="Léon Walras">Walras</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ludwig_von_Mises" title="Ludwig von Mises">von Mises</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ayn_Rand" title="Ayn Rand">Rand</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Murray_Rothbard" title="Murray Rothbard">Rothbard</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joseph_Schumpeter" title="Joseph Schumpeter">Schumpeter</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thorstein_Veblen" title="Thorstein Veblen">Veblen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richard_M._Weaver" title="Richard M. 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srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2f/Capitalismlogo.svg/24px-Capitalismlogo.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2f/Capitalismlogo.svg/32px-Capitalismlogo.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="959" data-file-height="912" /></a></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Portal:Capitalism" title="Portal:Capitalism">Capitalism portal</a></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><span class="noviewer" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Emblem-money.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="icon" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f3/Emblem-money.svg/16px-Emblem-money.svg.png" decoding="async" width="16" height="16" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f3/Emblem-money.svg/24px-Emblem-money.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f3/Emblem-money.svg/32px-Emblem-money.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="48" data-file-height="48" /></a></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Portal:Business" 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href="/wiki/Net_(economics)" title="Net (economics)">net</a> addition</i> to existing <a href="/wiki/Wealth#Economic_analysis" title="Wealth">wealth</a></li> <li>A <i>redistribution</i> of wealth.</li></ul> <p>Most often, capital accumulation involves both a net addition and a <a href="/wiki/Redistribution_of_wealth" class="mw-redirect" title="Redistribution of wealth">redistribution of wealth</a>, which may raise the question of who really benefits from it most. If more wealth is produced than there was before, a <a href="/wiki/Society" title="Society">society</a> becomes richer; the total <a href="/wiki/Stock_and_flow" title="Stock and flow">stock</a> of wealth increases. But if some accumulate <a href="/wiki/Capital_(economics)" title="Capital (economics)">capital</a> only at the expense of others, wealth is merely shifted from A to B. It is also possible that some accumulate capital much faster than others.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (December 2017)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> When one person is enriched at the expense of another in circumstances that the law sees as unjust it is called <a href="/wiki/Unjust_enrichment" class="mw-redirect" title="Unjust enrichment">unjust enrichment</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In principle, it is possible that a few people or organisations accumulate capital and grow richer, although the total stock of wealth of society <i>decreases</i>.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (December 2017)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>In <a href="/wiki/Economics" title="Economics">economics</a> and <a href="/wiki/Accounting" title="Accounting">accounting</a>, capital accumulation is often equated with investment of profit income or savings, especially in <a href="/wiki/Real_vs._nominal_in_economics" class="mw-redirect" title="Real vs. nominal in economics">real</a> <a href="/wiki/Capital_goods" class="mw-redirect" title="Capital goods">capital goods</a>. The concentration and <a href="/wiki/Centralisation" title="Centralisation">centralisation</a> of capital are two of the results of such accumulation (see below). </p><p><a href="/wiki/Capital_(economics)" title="Capital (economics)">Capital</a> accumulation refers ordinarily to: </p> <ul><li>Real investment in tangible means of production, such as acquisitions, research and development, etc. that can increase the capital flow.</li> <li>Investment in financial assets represented on paper, yielding profit, interest, rent, <a href="/wiki/Royalties" class="mw-redirect" title="Royalties">royalties</a>, fees or <a href="/wiki/Capital_gains" class="mw-redirect" title="Capital gains">capital gains</a>.</li> <li>Investment in <i>non-productive</i> physical assets such as residential real estate or works of art that appreciate in value.</li></ul> <p>and by extension to: </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Human_capital" title="Human capital">Human capital</a>, i.e., new education and training increasing the <a href="/wiki/Skill_(labor)" title="Skill (labor)">skills</a> of the (potential) <a href="/wiki/Labour_force" class="mw-redirect" title="Labour force">labour force</a> which can increase earnings from work.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Social_capital" title="Social capital">Social capital</a>, i.e. the wealth and <a href="/wiki/Productive_capacity" title="Productive capacity">productive capacity</a> that the people in a society hold in common, rather than as individuals or corporations.</li></ul> <p>Both non-financial and financial capital accumulation is usually needed for <a href="/wiki/Economic_growth" title="Economic growth">economic growth</a>, since additional <a href="/wiki/Production_(economics)" title="Production (economics)">production</a> usually requires additional funds to enlarge the scale of production. Smarter and more <a href="/wiki/Productivity" title="Productivity">productive</a> organization of production can also increase production without increased capital. Capital can be created without increased investment by inventions or improved organization that increase productivity, discoveries of new <a href="/wiki/Asset_(economics)" title="Asset (economics)">assets</a> (oil, gold, minerals, etc.), the sale of property, etc. </p><p>In modern <a href="/wiki/Macroeconomics" title="Macroeconomics">macroeconomics</a> and <a href="/wiki/Econometrics" title="Econometrics">econometrics</a> the term <i><a href="/wiki/Capital_formation" title="Capital formation">capital formation</a></i> is often used in preference to "accumulation", though the <a href="/wiki/United_Nations_Conference_on_Trade_and_Development" class="mw-redirect" title="United Nations Conference on Trade and Development">United Nations Conference on Trade and Development</a> (UNCTAD) refers nowadays to "accumulation". The term is occasionally used in <a href="/wiki/National_accounts" title="National accounts">national accounts</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Measurement_of_accumulation">Measurement of accumulation</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Capital_accumulation&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Measurement of accumulation"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Accumulation can be measured as the monetary value of investments, the amount of <a href="/wiki/Income" title="Income">income</a> that is reinvested, or as the change in the <a href="/wiki/Valuation_(finance)" title="Valuation (finance)">value of assets</a> owned (the increase in the value of the capital stock). Using company <a href="/wiki/Balance_sheet" title="Balance sheet">balance sheets</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tax" title="Tax">tax</a> data and direct <a href="/wiki/Statistical_survey" class="mw-redirect" title="Statistical survey">surveys</a> as a basis, government statisticians estimate total investments and assets for the purpose of <a href="/wiki/National_accounts" title="National accounts">national accounts</a>, national <a href="/wiki/Balance_of_payments" title="Balance of payments">balance of payments</a> and <a href="/wiki/Flow_of_funds" title="Flow of funds">flow of funds</a> statistics. Usually, the <a href="/wiki/Reserve_bank" class="mw-redirect" title="Reserve bank">reserve banks</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Treasury" title="Treasury">Treasury</a> provide interpretations and analysis of this <a href="/wiki/Economic_data" title="Economic data">data</a>. Standard <a href="/wiki/Economic_indicator" title="Economic indicator">indicators</a> include <a href="/wiki/Capital_formation" title="Capital formation">capital formation</a>, <a href="/wiki/Gross_fixed_capital_formation" title="Gross fixed capital formation">gross fixed capital formation</a>, <a href="/wiki/Fixed_capital" title="Fixed capital">fixed capital</a>, household asset wealth, and <a href="/wiki/Foreign_direct_investment" title="Foreign direct investment">foreign direct investment</a>. </p><p>Organisations such as the <a href="/wiki/International_Monetary_Fund" title="International Monetary Fund">International Monetary Fund</a>, UNCTAD, the <a href="/wiki/World_Bank_Group" title="World Bank Group">World Bank Group</a>, the <a href="/wiki/OECD" title="OECD">OECD</a>, and the <a href="/wiki/Bank_for_International_Settlements" title="Bank for International Settlements">Bank for International Settlements</a> used national investment data to estimate world trends. The <a href="/wiki/Bureau_of_Economic_Analysis" title="Bureau of Economic Analysis">Bureau of Economic Analysis</a>, <a href="/wiki/Eurostat" title="Eurostat">Eurostat</a> and the Japan Statistical Office provide data on the US, Europe and Japan respectively. </p><p>Other useful sources of investment information are business magazines such as <i><a href="/wiki/Fortune_(magazine)" title="Fortune (magazine)">Fortune</a>, <a href="/wiki/Forbes" title="Forbes">Forbes</a>, <a href="/wiki/The_Economist" title="The Economist">The Economist</a>, <a href="/wiki/Business_Week" class="mw-redirect" title="Business Week">Business Week</a></i>, etc., and various corporate "<a href="/wiki/Watchdog_journalism" title="Watchdog journalism">watchdog</a>" organisations and <a href="/wiki/Non-governmental_organization" title="Non-governmental organization">non-governmental organization</a> publications. A reputable <a href="/wiki/Scientific_journal" title="Scientific journal">scientific journal</a> is the <i><a href="/wiki/Review_of_Income_and_Wealth" title="Review of Income and Wealth">Review of Income and Wealth</a></i>. In the case of the US, the "Analytical Perspectives" document (an annex to the yearly budget) provides useful wealth and capital estimates applying to the whole country. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Demand-led_growth_models">Demand-led growth models</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Capital_accumulation&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Demand-led growth models"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In <a href="/wiki/Macroeconomics" title="Macroeconomics">macroeconomics</a>, following the <a href="/wiki/Harrod%E2%80%93Domar_model" title="Harrod–Domar model">Harrod–Domar model</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Savings_ratio" class="mw-redirect" title="Savings ratio">savings ratio</a> (<span class="mwe-math-element"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-inline mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle s}"> <semantics> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mstyle displaystyle="true" scriptlevel="0"> <mi>s</mi> </mstyle> </mrow> <annotation encoding="application/x-tex">{\displaystyle s}</annotation> </semantics> </math></span><img src="https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/01d131dfd7673938b947072a13a9744fe997e632" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -0.338ex; width:1.09ex; height:1.676ex;" alt="{\displaystyle s}"></span>) and the capital coefficient (<span class="mwe-math-element"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-inline mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle k}"> <semantics> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mstyle displaystyle="true" scriptlevel="0"> <mi>k</mi> </mstyle> </mrow> <annotation encoding="application/x-tex">{\displaystyle k}</annotation> </semantics> </math></span><img src="https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/c3c9a2c7b599b37105512c5d570edc034056dd40" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -0.338ex; width:1.211ex; height:2.176ex;" alt="{\displaystyle k}"></span>) are regarded as critical factors for accumulation and growth, assuming that all saving is used to finance <a href="/wiki/Fixed_investment" title="Fixed investment">fixed investment</a>. The rate of growth of the real stock of fixed capital (<span class="mwe-math-element"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-inline mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle K}"> <semantics> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mstyle displaystyle="true" scriptlevel="0"> <mi>K</mi> </mstyle> </mrow> <annotation encoding="application/x-tex">{\displaystyle K}</annotation> </semantics> </math></span><img src="https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/2b76fce82a62ed5461908f0dc8f037de4e3686b0" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -0.338ex; width:2.066ex; height:2.176ex;" alt="{\displaystyle K}"></span>) is: </p> <dl><dd><span class="mwe-math-element"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-inline mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle {{\Delta K} \over K}={{{\Delta K} \over Y} \over {K \over Y}}={s \over k}}"> <semantics> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mstyle displaystyle="true" scriptlevel="0"> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mfrac> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mi mathvariant="normal">Δ</mi> <mi>K</mi> </mrow> <mi>K</mi> </mfrac> </mrow> <mo>=</mo> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mfrac> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mfrac> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mi mathvariant="normal">Δ</mi> <mi>K</mi> </mrow> <mi>Y</mi> </mfrac> </mrow> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mfrac> <mi>K</mi> <mi>Y</mi> </mfrac> </mrow> </mfrac> </mrow> <mo>=</mo> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mfrac> <mi>s</mi> <mi>k</mi> </mfrac> </mrow> </mstyle> </mrow> <annotation encoding="application/x-tex">{\displaystyle {{\Delta K} \over K}={{{\Delta K} \over Y} \over {K \over Y}}={s \over k}}</annotation> </semantics> </math></span><img src="https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/2fcfd486d5ebb3f9720d9b41d01d96d69ffca604" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -3.505ex; width:17.584ex; height:8.176ex;" alt="{\displaystyle {{\Delta K} \over K}={{{\Delta K} \over Y} \over {K \over Y}}={s \over k}}"></span></dd></dl> <p>where <span class="mwe-math-element"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-inline mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle Y}"> <semantics> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mstyle displaystyle="true" scriptlevel="0"> <mi>Y</mi> </mstyle> </mrow> <annotation encoding="application/x-tex">{\displaystyle Y}</annotation> </semantics> </math></span><img src="https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/961d67d6b454b4df2301ac571808a3538b3a6d3f" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -0.171ex; width:1.773ex; height:2.009ex;" alt="{\displaystyle Y}"></span> is the real national income. If the capital-<a href="/wiki/Output_(economics)" title="Output (economics)">output</a> ratio or capital coefficient (<span class="mwe-math-element"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-inline mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle k={K \over Y}}"> <semantics> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mstyle displaystyle="true" scriptlevel="0"> <mi>k</mi> <mo>=</mo> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mfrac> <mi>K</mi> <mi>Y</mi> </mfrac> </mrow> </mstyle> </mrow> <annotation encoding="application/x-tex">{\displaystyle k={K \over Y}}</annotation> </semantics> </math></span><img src="https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/2e3d6681ddcd8d636e4f19460a4662293e124f9e" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -1.838ex; width:7.212ex; height:5.176ex;" alt="{\displaystyle k={K \over Y}}"></span>) is constant, the rate of growth of <span class="mwe-math-element"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-inline mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle Y}"> <semantics> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mstyle displaystyle="true" scriptlevel="0"> <mi>Y</mi> </mstyle> </mrow> <annotation encoding="application/x-tex">{\displaystyle Y}</annotation> </semantics> </math></span><img src="https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/961d67d6b454b4df2301ac571808a3538b3a6d3f" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -0.171ex; width:1.773ex; height:2.009ex;" alt="{\displaystyle Y}"></span> is equal to the rate of growth of <span class="mwe-math-element"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-inline mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle K}"> <semantics> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mstyle displaystyle="true" scriptlevel="0"> <mi>K</mi> </mstyle> </mrow> <annotation encoding="application/x-tex">{\displaystyle K}</annotation> </semantics> </math></span><img src="https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/2b76fce82a62ed5461908f0dc8f037de4e3686b0" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -0.338ex; width:2.066ex; height:2.176ex;" alt="{\displaystyle K}"></span>. This is determined by <span class="mwe-math-element"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-inline mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle s}"> <semantics> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mstyle displaystyle="true" scriptlevel="0"> <mi>s</mi> </mstyle> </mrow> <annotation encoding="application/x-tex">{\displaystyle s}</annotation> </semantics> </math></span><img src="https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/01d131dfd7673938b947072a13a9744fe997e632" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -0.338ex; width:1.09ex; height:1.676ex;" alt="{\displaystyle s}"></span> (the ratio of net fixed investment or saving to <span class="mwe-math-element"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-inline mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle Y}"> <semantics> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mstyle displaystyle="true" scriptlevel="0"> <mi>Y</mi> </mstyle> </mrow> <annotation encoding="application/x-tex">{\displaystyle Y}</annotation> </semantics> </math></span><img src="https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/961d67d6b454b4df2301ac571808a3538b3a6d3f" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -0.171ex; width:1.773ex; height:2.009ex;" alt="{\displaystyle Y}"></span>) and <span class="mwe-math-element"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-inline mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle k}"> <semantics> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mstyle displaystyle="true" scriptlevel="0"> <mi>k</mi> </mstyle> </mrow> <annotation encoding="application/x-tex">{\displaystyle k}</annotation> </semantics> </math></span><img src="https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/c3c9a2c7b599b37105512c5d570edc034056dd40" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -0.338ex; width:1.211ex; height:2.176ex;" alt="{\displaystyle k}"></span>. </p><p>A country might, for example, save and invest 12% of its <a href="/wiki/Gross_national_income" title="Gross national income">national income</a>, and then if the capital coefficient is 4:1 (i.e. $4 billion must be invested to increase the national income by 1 billion) the rate of growth of the national income might be 3% annually. However, as <a href="/wiki/Keynesian_economics" title="Keynesian economics">Keynesian economics</a> points out, <a href="/wiki/Saving" title="Saving">savings</a> do not automatically mean investment (as <a href="/wiki/Liquid_capital" title="Liquid capital">liquid funds</a> may be <a href="/wiki/Hoarding_(economics)" title="Hoarding (economics)">hoarded</a> for example). Investment may also not be investment in fixed capital (see above). </p><p>Assuming that the turnover of total production capital invested remains constant, the proportion of total investment which just maintains the stock of total capital, rather than enlarging it, will typically increase as the total stock increases. The growth rate of incomes and net new investments must then also increase, in order to accelerate the growth of the capital stock. Simply put, the bigger capital grows, the more capital it takes to keep it growing and the more <a href="/wiki/Market_(economics)" title="Market (economics)">markets</a> must expand. </p><p>The Harrodian model has a problem of unstable static equilibrium, since if the growth rate is not equal to the Harrodian warranted rate, the production will tend to extreme points (infinite or zero production).<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Neo-Kaleckians models do not suffer from the Harrodian instability but fails to deliver a convergence dynamic of the effective capacity utilization to the planned capacity utilization.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> For its turn, the model of the Sraffian Supermultiplier grants a static stable equilibrium and a convergence to the planned capacity utilization.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Sraffian Supermultiplier model diverges from the Harrodian model since it takes the investment as induced and not as autonomous. The autonomous components in this model are the Autonomous Non-Capacity Creating Expenditures, such as exports, credit led consumption and public spending. The growth rate of these expenditures determines the long run rate of capital accumulation and product growth. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Marxist_concept">Marxist concept</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Capital_accumulation&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Marxist concept"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1246091330"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1246091330"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1246091330"><table class="sidebar sidebar-collapse nomobile nowraplinks"><tbody><tr><td class="sidebar-pretitle">Part of <a href="/wiki/Category:Marxism" title="Category:Marxism">a series</a> on</td></tr><tr><th class="sidebar-title-with-pretitle" style="font-size:175%;"><a href="/wiki/Marxism" title="Marxism">Marxism</a></th></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-image"><span class="notpageimage" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Marx_Engels_icon.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels"><img alt="Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e9/Marx_Engels_icon.svg/75px-Marx_Engels_icon.svg.png" decoding="async" width="75" height="75" class="mw-file-element" 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Working Class in England</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_German_Ideology" title="The German Ideology">The German Ideology</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Communist_Manifesto" title="The Communist Manifesto">The Communist Manifesto</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Eighteenth_Brumaire_of_Louis_Bonaparte" title="The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte">The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Grundrisse" title="Grundrisse">Grundrisse</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Das_Kapital" title="Das Kapital">Capital</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Critique_of_the_Gotha_Programme" title="Critique of the Gotha Programme">Critique of the Gotha Programme</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dialectics_of_Nature" title="Dialectics of Nature">Dialectics of Nature</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Origin_of_the_Family,_Private_Property_and_the_State" title="The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State">The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State</a></li> <li><a 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philosophy">Philosophy</a></li></ul></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="background:transparent;border-top:1px solid #aaa;;color: var(--color-base)">Common variants</div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content"><table class="sidebar nomobile nowraplinks" style="background-color: transparent; color: var( --color-base ); border-collapse:collapse; border-spacing:0px; border:none; width:100%; margin:0px; font-size:100%; clear:none; float:none"><tbody><tr><th class="sidebar-heading" style="padding-top:0.2em;font-style:italic;font-weight:normal;border-bottom:1px solid #ccc;"> <a href="/wiki/Structural_Marxism" title="Structural Marxism">Structural</a></th></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content plainlist hlist" style="padding-top:0.15em;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Autonomism" title="Autonomism">Autonomist</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marxism%E2%80%93Leninism" title="Marxism–Leninism">Marxism–Leninism</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Guevarism" title="Guevarism">Guevarism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maoism" title="Maoism">Maoism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Titoism" title="Titoism">Titoism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Trotskyism" title="Trotskyism">Trotskyism</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Neo-Gramscianism" title="Neo-Gramscianism">Neo-Gramscianism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Regulation_school" title="Regulation school">Regulation school</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maoism%E2%80%93Third_Worldism" title="Maoism–Third Worldism">Third-worldist</a></li></ul></td> </tr><tr><th class="sidebar-heading" style="padding-top:0.2em;font-style:italic;font-weight:normal;border-bottom:1px solid #ccc;"> <a href="/wiki/History_and_Class_Consciousness#Summary" title="History and Class Consciousness">Hegelian</a></th></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content plainlist hlist" style="padding-top:0.15em;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Budapest_School" title="Budapest School">Budapest School</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Frankfurt_School" title="Frankfurt School">Frankfurt School</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marxist_humanism" title="Marxist humanism">Humanist</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Neue_Marx-Lekt%C3%BCre" title="Neue Marx-Lektüre">Neue Marx-Lektüre</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Open_Marxism" title="Open Marxism">Open</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Political_Marxism" title="Political Marxism">Political</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Praxis_School" title="Praxis School">Praxis School</a></li></ul></td> </tr><tr><th class="sidebar-heading" style="padding-top:0.2em;font-style:italic;font-weight:normal;border-bottom:1px solid #ccc;"> Both</th></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content plainlist hlist" style="padding-top:0.15em;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Black_radical_tradition" title="Black radical tradition">Black</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Classical_Marxism" title="Classical Marxism">Classical</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Communization" title="Communization">Communization</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marxist_feminism" title="Marxist feminism">Feminist</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Leninism" title="Leninism">Leninism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Neo-Marxism" title="Neo-Marxism">Neo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Post-Marxism" title="Post-Marxism">Post</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Western_Marxism" title="Western Marxism">Western</a></li></ul></td> </tr></tbody></table></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed hlist"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="background:transparent;border-top:1px solid #aaa;;color: var(--color-base)"><a href="/wiki/Marxist_schools_of_thought" title="Marxist schools of thought">Other variants</a></div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Analytical_Marxism" title="Analytical Marxism">Analytical</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Austromarxism" title="Austromarxism">Austromarxism</a></li> <li><a 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title="Wertkritik">Wertkritik</a></li></ul></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed hlist"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="background:transparent;border-top:1px solid #aaa;;color: var(--color-base)"><a href="/wiki/List_of_contributors_to_Marxist_theory" title="List of contributors to Marxist theory">People</a></div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content"> <ul><li><b><a href="/wiki/Karl_Marx" title="Karl Marx">Marx</a></b></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Friedrich_Engels" title="Friedrich Engels">Engels</a></b></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Morris" title="William Morris">Morris</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paul_Lafargue" title="Paul Lafargue">Lafargue</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Isaak_Illich_Rubin" title="Isaak Illich Rubin">Rubin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karl_Kautsky" title="Karl Kautsky">Kautsky</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Georgi_Plekhanov" title="Georgi Plekhanov">Plekhanov</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/W._E._B._Du_Bois" title="W. E. B. 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title="Portal:Socialism">Socialism portal</a></li></ul></td></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-navbar"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239400231"><div class="navbar plainlinks hlist navbar-mini"><ul><li class="nv-view"><a href="/wiki/Template:Marxism_sidebar" title="Template:Marxism sidebar"><abbr title="View this template">v</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-talk"><a href="/wiki/Template_talk:Marxism_sidebar" title="Template talk:Marxism sidebar"><abbr title="Discuss this template">t</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-edit"><a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Template:Marxism_sidebar" title="Special:EditPage/Template:Marxism sidebar"><abbr title="Edit this template">e</abbr></a></li></ul></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>Marx borrowed the idea of capital accumulation or the concentration of capital from early socialist writers such as <a href="/wiki/Charles_Fourier" title="Charles Fourier">Charles Fourier</a>, <a href="/wiki/Louis_Blanc" title="Louis Blanc">Louis Blanc</a>, <a href="/wiki/Victor_Prosper_Considerant" title="Victor Prosper Considerant">Victor Considerant</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Constantin_Pecqueur" title="Constantin Pecqueur">Constantin Pecqueur</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Blake1939_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Blake1939-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In <a href="/wiki/Karl_Marx" title="Karl Marx">Karl Marx</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Critique_of_political_economy" title="Critique of political economy">critique of political economy</a>, capital accumulation is the operation whereby profits are reinvested into the economy, increasing the total quantity of capital. Capital was understood by Marx to be expanding value, that is, in other terms, as a sum of capital, usually expressed in <a href="/wiki/Marxian_economics#Money" title="Marxian economics">money</a>, that is <a href="/wiki/Transformation_in_economics" title="Transformation in economics">transformed</a> through <a href="/wiki/Labor_theory_of_value" title="Labor theory of value">human labor into a larger value</a> and extracted as profits. Here, capital is defined essentially as economic or commercial asset <a href="/wiki/Value_(economics)" title="Value (economics)">value</a> that is used by capitalists to obtain additional value (<a href="/wiki/Surplus-value" class="mw-redirect" title="Surplus-value">surplus-value</a>). This requires property relations which enable objects of value to be appropriated and <a href="/wiki/Ownership" title="Ownership">owned</a>, and trading rights to be established. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Over-accumulation_and_crisis">Over-accumulation and crisis</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Capital_accumulation&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Over-accumulation and crisis"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The Marxist analysis of capital accumulation and the development of capitalism identifies systemic issues with the process that arise with expansion of the <a href="/wiki/Productive_forces" title="Productive forces">productive forces</a>. A crisis of <a href="/wiki/Overaccumulation" title="Overaccumulation">overaccumulation</a> of capital occurs when the <a href="/wiki/Rate_of_profit" title="Rate of profit">rate of profit</a> is greater than the rate of new profitable investment outlets in the economy, arising from increasing productivity from a rising <a href="/wiki/Organic_composition_of_capital" title="Organic composition of capital">organic composition of capital</a> (higher capital input to labor input ratio). This depresses the <a href="/wiki/Wage" title="Wage">wage</a> bill, leading to stagnant wages and high rates of <a href="/wiki/Unemployment" title="Unemployment">unemployment</a> for the <a href="/wiki/Working_class" title="Working class">working class</a> while excess profits search for new profitable investment opportunities. Marx believed that this cyclical process would be the fundamental cause for the <a href="/wiki/Post-capitalism" title="Post-capitalism">dissolution of capitalism</a> and its replacement by <a href="/wiki/Socialism" title="Socialism">socialism</a>, which would operate according to a different economic dynamic.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In Marxist thought, socialism would succeed capitalism as the <a href="/wiki/Socialist_mode_of_production" title="Socialist mode of production">dominant mode of production</a> when the accumulation of capital can no longer sustain itself due to <a href="/wiki/Tendency_of_the_rate_of_profit_to_fall" title="Tendency of the rate of profit to fall">falling rates of profit</a> in real production relative to increasing productivity. A <a href="/wiki/Socialist_economy" class="mw-redirect" title="Socialist economy">socialist economy</a> would not base production on the accumulation of capital, instead basing production on the criteria of satisfying human needs and directly producing <a href="/wiki/Use-values" class="mw-redirect" title="Use-values">use-values</a>. This concept is encapsulated in the principle of <a href="/wiki/Production_for_use" title="Production for use">production for use</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Concentration_and_centralization">Concentration and centralization</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Capital_accumulation&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Concentration and centralization"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>According to Marx, capital has the tendency for concentration and <a href="/wiki/Centralization" class="mw-redirect" title="Centralization">centralization</a> in the hands of richest capitalists. Marx explains: </p><p>"It is concentration of capitals already formed, destruction of their individual independence, expropriation of capitalist by capitalist, transformation of many small into few large capitals.... Capital grows in one place to a huge mass in a single hand, because it has in another place been lost by many.... The battle of competition is fought by cheapening of commodities. The cheapness of commodities demands, <i>ceteris paribus</i>, on the productiveness of labour, and this again on the scale of production. Therefore, the larger capitals beat the smaller. It will further be remembered that, with the development of the <a href="/wiki/Capitalist_mode_of_production_(Marxist_theory)" title="Capitalist mode of production (Marxist theory)">capitalist mode of production</a>, there is an increase in the minimum amount of individual capital necessary to carry on a business under its normal conditions. The smaller capitals, therefore, crowd into spheres of production which Modern Industry has only sporadically or incompletely got hold of. Here competition rages.... It always ends in the ruin of many small capitalists, whose capitals partly pass into the hands of their conquerors, partly vanish."<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Rate_of_accumulation">Rate of accumulation</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Capital_accumulation&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Rate of accumulation"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In <a href="/wiki/Marxian_economics" title="Marxian economics">Marxian economics</a>, the <i>rate of accumulation</i> is defined as (1) the value of the real net increase in the stock of capital in an accounting period, (2) the proportion of realized surplus-value or profit-income which is reinvested, rather than consumed. This rate can be expressed by means of various ratios between the original capital outlay, the realized turnover, surplus-value or profit and reinvestment's (see, e.g., the writings of the economist <a href="/wiki/Micha%C5%82_Kalecki" title="Michał Kalecki">Michał Kalecki</a>). </p><p>Other things being equal, the greater the amount of profit-income that is <a href="/wiki/Disbursed" class="mw-redirect" title="Disbursed">disbursed</a> as <a href="/wiki/Personal_income" title="Personal income">personal earnings</a> and used for <a href="/wiki/Consumption_(economics)" title="Consumption (economics)">consumption</a> purposes, the lower the savings rate and the lower the rate of accumulation is likely to be. However, earnings spent on consumption can also <a href="/wiki/Stimulus_(economics)" title="Stimulus (economics)">stimulate</a> market <a href="/wiki/Demand" title="Demand">demand</a> and higher investment. This is the cause of endless controversies in economic theory about "how much to spend, and how much to save". </p><p>In a boom period of capitalism, the growth of investments is <a href="/wiki/Cumulative_process" title="Cumulative process">cumulative</a>, i.e. one investment leads to another, leading to a constantly expanding market, an expanding <a href="/wiki/Labor_force" class="mw-redirect" title="Labor force">labor force</a>, and an increase in the <a href="/wiki/Standard_of_living" title="Standard of living">standard of living</a> for the majority of the people. </p><p>In a <a href="/wiki/Economic_stagnation" title="Economic stagnation">stagnating</a>, decadent capitalism, the accumulation process is increasingly oriented towards investment on <a href="/wiki/Military_budget" title="Military budget">military</a> and <a href="/wiki/Security_forces" title="Security forces">security forces</a>, <a href="/wiki/Real_estate_investing" title="Real estate investing">real estate</a>, financial <a href="/wiki/Speculation" title="Speculation">speculation</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Luxury_consumption" class="mw-redirect" title="Luxury consumption">luxury consumption</a>. In that case, income from <a href="/wiki/Value-adding" class="mw-redirect" title="Value-adding">value-adding</a> production will decline in favour of interest, rent and tax income, with as a <a href="/wiki/Corollary" title="Corollary">corollary</a> an increase in the level of permanent unemployment. </p><p>As a rule, the larger the total sum of capital invested, the higher the <a href="/wiki/Return_on_investment" title="Return on investment">return on investment</a> will be. The more capital one owns, the more capital one can also borrow and reinvest at a higher rate of profit or <a href="/wiki/Interest_rate" title="Interest rate">interest</a>. The inverse is also true, and this is one factor in the widening <a href="/wiki/Economic_inequality" title="Economic inequality">gap between the rich and the poor</a>. </p><p><a href="/wiki/Ernest_Mandel" title="Ernest Mandel">Ernest Mandel</a> emphasized that the rhythm of capital accumulation and growth depended critically on (1) the division of a society's social product between <a href="/wiki/Necessary_product" class="mw-redirect" title="Necessary product">necessary product</a> and <a href="/wiki/Surplus_product" title="Surplus product">surplus product</a>, and (2) the division of the surplus product between investment and consumption. In turn, this <a href="/wiki/Resource_allocation" title="Resource allocation">allocation</a> pattern reflected the outcome of <a href="/wiki/Competition_(economics)" title="Competition (economics)">competition</a> among capitalists, competition between capitalists and workers, and competition between workers. The pattern of capital accumulation can therefore never be simply explained by commercial factors, it also involved social factors and <a href="/wiki/Economic_power" title="Economic power">power</a> relationships. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Circuit_of_capital_accumulation_from_production">Circuit of capital accumulation from production</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Capital_accumulation&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Circuit of capital accumulation from production"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Strictly speaking, capital has accumulated only when realized <a href="/wiki/Profit_(accounting)" title="Profit (accounting)">profit</a> income has been <i>reinvested</i> in <a href="/wiki/Capital_assets" class="mw-redirect" title="Capital assets">capital assets</a>. But the process of capital accumulation in <a href="/w/index.php?title=Production,_costs,_and_pricing&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Production, costs, and pricing (page does not exist)">production</a> has, as suggested in <a href="/wiki/Capital,_Volume_I" class="mw-redirect" title="Capital, Volume I">the first volume</a> of Marx's <i><a href="/wiki/Das_Kapital" title="Das Kapital">Das Kapital</a></i>, at least seven distinct but linked moments: </p> <ul><li>The initial investment of capital (which could be <a href="/wiki/Borrowed_capital" class="mw-redirect" title="Borrowed capital">borrowed capital</a>) in <a href="/wiki/Means_of_production" title="Means of production">means of production</a> and <a href="/wiki/Labor_power" class="mw-redirect" title="Labor power">labor power</a>.</li> <li>The command over <a href="/wiki/Surplus_labour" title="Surplus labour">surplus labour</a> and its appropriation.</li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/Valorisation" title="Valorisation">valorisation</a> (increase in value) of capital through production of new outputs.</li> <li>The appropriation of the new output produced by employees, containing the added value.</li> <li>The realisation of surplus-value through output sales.</li> <li>The appropriation of realised surplus-value as (profit) income after deduction of costs.</li> <li>The reinvestment of profit income in production.</li></ul> <p>All of these moments do not refer simply to an economic or <a href="/wiki/Commercial_process" class="mw-redirect" title="Commercial process">commercial process</a>. Rather, they assume the existence of legal, <a href="/wiki/Power_(social_and_political)" title="Power (social and political)">social</a>, cultural and economic power conditions, without which <a href="/wiki/Wealth_creation" class="mw-redirect" title="Wealth creation">creation</a>, <a href="/wiki/Distribution_of_wealth" title="Distribution of wealth">distribution</a> and circulation of the new wealth could not occur. This becomes especially clear when the attempt is made to create a market where none exists, or where people refuse to trade. </p><p>In fact Marx argues that the original or <a href="/wiki/Primitive_accumulation_of_capital" title="Primitive accumulation of capital">primitive accumulation of capital</a> often occurs through violence, plunder, slavery, robbery, extortion and theft. He argues that the capitalist mode of production requires that <a href="/wiki/Marx%27s_theory_of_alienation" title="Marx's theory of alienation">people be forced to work</a> in value-adding production for someone else, and for this purpose, they must be cut off from sources of income other than selling their labor power. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Simple_and_expanded_reproduction">Simple and expanded reproduction</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Capital_accumulation&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Simple and expanded reproduction"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In volume 2 of <i>Das Kapital</i>, Marx continues the story and shows that, with the aid of bank <a href="/wiki/Credit_(finance)" class="mw-redirect" title="Credit (finance)">credit</a>, capital in search of growth can more or less smoothly mutate from one form to another, alternately taking the form of money capital (liquid deposits, securities, etc.), commodity capital (tradeable products, <a href="/wiki/Real_estate" title="Real estate">real estate</a> etc.), or production capital (means of production and labor power). </p><p>His discussion of the simple and expanded <a href="/wiki/Reproduction_(economics)" title="Reproduction (economics)">reproduction</a> of the conditions of production offers a more sophisticated model of the parameters of the accumulation process as a whole. At simple reproduction, a sufficient amount is produced to sustain society at the given <a href="/wiki/Living_standard" class="mw-redirect" title="Living standard">living standard</a>; the stock of capital stays constant. At expanded reproduction, <i>more</i> product-value is produced than is necessary to sustain society at a given living standard (a surplus product); the additional product-value is available for investments which enlarge the scale and variety of production. </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Bourgeois" class="mw-redirect" title="Bourgeois">bourgeois</a> claim there is no <a href="/wiki/Economic_law" title="Economic law">economic law</a> according to which capital is necessarily re-invested in the expansion of production, that such depends on anticipated profitability, market expectations and perceptions of investment risk. Such statements only explain the subjective experiences of investors and ignore the objective realities which would influence such opinions. As Marx states in Vol.2, simple reproduction only exists if the variable and surplus capital realized by Dept. 1—producers of means of production—exactly equals that of the constant capital of Dept. 2, producers of articles of consumption (p. 524). Such equilibrium rests on various assumptions, such as a constant labor supply (no population growth). Accumulation does not imply a necessary change in total magnitude of value produced but can simply refer to a change in the composition of an industry (p. 514). </p><p><a href="/wiki/Ernest_Mandel" title="Ernest Mandel">Ernest Mandel</a> introduced the additional concept of <i>contracted economic reproduction</i>, i.e. reduced accumulation where business operating at a loss outnumbers growing business, or economic reproduction on a decreasing scale, for example due to wars, natural disasters or de<a href="/wiki/Valorisation" title="Valorisation">valorisation</a>. </p><p>Balanced <a href="/wiki/Economic_growth" title="Economic growth">economic growth</a> requires that different factors in the accumulation process expand in appropriate proportions. But markets themselves cannot spontaneously create that balance, in fact what drives business activity is precisely the imbalances between <a href="/wiki/Supply_and_demand" title="Supply and demand">supply and demand</a>: inequality is the motor of growth. This partly explains why the worldwide pattern of economic growth is very uneven and unequal, even although markets have existed almost everywhere for a very long time. Some people argue that it also explains government regulation of market trade and <a href="/wiki/Protectionism" title="Protectionism">protectionism</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Origins">Origins</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Capital_accumulation&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Origins"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>According to Marx, capital accumulation has a double origin, namely in trade and in <a href="/wiki/Confiscation" title="Confiscation">expropriation</a>, both of a legal or illegal kind. The reason is that a stock of capital can be increased through a process of exchange or "trading up" but also through directly taking an asset or resource from someone else, without compensation. <a href="/wiki/David_Harvey_(geographer)" class="mw-redirect" title="David Harvey (geographer)">David Harvey</a> calls this <a href="/wiki/Accumulation_by_dispossession" title="Accumulation by dispossession">accumulation by dispossession</a>. Marx does not discuss gifts and <a href="/wiki/Grant_(money)" title="Grant (money)">grants</a> as a source of capital accumulation, nor does he analyze taxation in detail (he could not, as he died even before completing his major book, <i>Das Kapital</i>). </p><p>The continuation and progress of capital accumulation depends on the removal of obstacles to the expansion of trade, and this has historically often been a violent process. As markets expand, more and more new opportunities develop for accumulating capital, because more and more types of goods and services can be traded in. But capital accumulation may also confront resistance, when people refuse to sell, or refuse to buy (for example a <a href="/wiki/Strike_action" title="Strike action">strike</a> by investors or workers, or <a href="/wiki/Consumer_resistance" class="mw-redirect" title="Consumer resistance">consumer resistance</a>). </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Capital_accumulation_as_social_relation">Capital accumulation as social relation</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Capital_accumulation&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Capital accumulation as social relation"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1251242444"><table class="box-Over-quotation plainlinks metadata ambox ambox-style" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><div class="mbox-image-div"><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/f2/Edit-clear.svg/40px-Edit-clear.svg.png" decoding="async" width="40" height="40" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/f2/Edit-clear.svg/60px-Edit-clear.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/f2/Edit-clear.svg/80px-Edit-clear.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="48" data-file-height="48" /></span></span></div></td><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span">This section <b>contains <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style#Quotations" title="Wikipedia:Manual of Style">too many or overly lengthy quotations</a></b>.<span class="hide-when-compact"> Please help <a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Capital_accumulation&action=edit">summarize the quotations</a>. Consider transferring direct quotations to <a href="https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Special:Search/Capital_accumulation" class="extiw" title="q:Special:Search/Capital accumulation">Wikiquote</a> or excerpts to <a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Special:Search/Capital_accumulation" class="extiw" title="s:Special:Search/Capital accumulation">Wikisource</a>.</span> <span class="date-container"><i>(<span class="date">December 2017</span>)</i></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>"Accumulation of capital" sometimes also refers in Marxist writings to the reproduction of <a href="/wiki/Capitalism" title="Capitalism">capitalist</a> <a href="/wiki/Social_relations" class="mw-redirect" title="Social relations">social relations</a> (institutions) on a larger scale over time, i.e., the expansion of the size of the <a href="/wiki/Proletariat" title="Proletariat">proletariat</a> and of the wealth owned by the bourgeoisie. </p><p>This interpretation emphasizes that capital ownership, predicated on command over labor, is a social relation: the growth of capital implies the growth of the <a href="/wiki/Working_class" title="Working class">working class</a> (a "<a href="/wiki/Law_of_accumulation" class="mw-redirect" title="Law of accumulation">law of accumulation</a>"). In the first volume of <i>Das Kapital</i> Marx had illustrated this idea with reference to <a href="/wiki/Edward_Gibbon_Wakefield" title="Edward Gibbon Wakefield">Edward Gibbon Wakefield</a>'s theory of colonisation: </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1244412712">.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 32px}.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-top:0}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{padding-left:1.6em}}</style><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>...Wakefield discovered that in the Colonies, property in money, means of subsistence, machines, and other means of production, does not as yet stamp a man as a capitalist if there be wanting the correlative — the wage-worker, the other man who is compelled to sell himself of his own free-will. He discovered that capital is not a thing, but a social relation between persons, established by the instrumentality of things. <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Peel" title="Thomas Peel">Mr. Peel</a>, he moans, took with him from England to <a href="/wiki/Swan_River_Colony" title="Swan River Colony">Swan River</a>, West Australia, means of subsistence and of production to the amount of £50,000. Mr. Peel had the foresight to bring with him, besides, 3,000 persons of the working-class, men, women, and children. Once arrived at his destination, “Mr. Peel was left without a servant to make his bed or fetch him water from the river.” Unhappy Mr. Peel, who provided for everything except the export of English modes of production to Swan River!</p><div class="templatequotecite">— <cite><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/ch33.htm"><i>Das Kapital</i>, vol. 1, ch. 33</a></cite></div></blockquote> <p>In <a href="/wiki/Capital,_Volume_III" class="mw-redirect" title="Capital, Volume III">the third volume</a> of <i>Das Kapital</i>, Marx refers to the "fetishism of capital" reaching its highest point with <i>interest-bearing capital</i>, because now capital seems to grow of its own accord without anybody doing anything. In this case, </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>The relations of capital assume their most externalised and most fetish-like form in interest-bearing capital. We have here <span class="mwe-math-element"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-inline mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle M-M'}"> <semantics> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mstyle displaystyle="true" scriptlevel="0"> <mi>M</mi> <mo>−</mo> <msup> <mi>M</mi> <mo>′</mo> </msup> </mstyle> </mrow> <annotation encoding="application/x-tex">{\displaystyle M-M'}</annotation> </semantics> </math></span><img src="https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/dcfcf2e999bb7fc9bd1e7a980ef514d1cfdeace6" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -0.505ex; width:8.466ex; height:2.676ex;" alt="{\displaystyle M-M'}"></span>, money creating more money, self-expanding value, without the process that effectuates these two extremes. In merchant's capital, <span class="mwe-math-element"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-inline mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle M-C-M'}"> <semantics> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mstyle displaystyle="true" scriptlevel="0"> <mi>M</mi> <mo>−</mo> <mi>C</mi> <mo>−</mo> <msup> <mi>M</mi> <mo>′</mo> </msup> </mstyle> </mrow> <annotation encoding="application/x-tex">{\displaystyle M-C-M'}</annotation> </semantics> </math></span><img src="https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/bccdeb7b1fd46646488056a0f633baba5aca7101" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -0.505ex; width:13.073ex; height:2.676ex;" alt="{\displaystyle M-C-M'}"></span>, there is at least the general form of the capitalistic movement, although it confines itself solely to the sphere of circulation, so that profit appears merely as profit derived from alienation; but it is at least seen to be the product of a social relation, not the product of a mere thing. (...) This is obliterated in <span class="mwe-math-element"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-inline mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle M-M'}"> <semantics> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mstyle displaystyle="true" scriptlevel="0"> <mi>M</mi> <mo>−</mo> <msup> <mi>M</mi> <mo>′</mo> </msup> </mstyle> </mrow> <annotation encoding="application/x-tex">{\displaystyle M-M'}</annotation> </semantics> </math></span><img src="https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/dcfcf2e999bb7fc9bd1e7a980ef514d1cfdeace6" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -0.505ex; width:8.466ex; height:2.676ex;" alt="{\displaystyle M-M'}"></span>, the form of interest-bearing capital. (...) The thing (money, commodity, value) is now capital even as a mere thing, and capital appears as a mere thing. The result of the entire process of reproduction appears as a property inherent in the thing itself. It depends on the owner of the money, i.e., of the commodity in its continually exchangeable form, whether he wants to spend it as money or loan it out as capital. In interest-bearing capital, therefore, this automatic fetish, self-expanding value, money generating money, are brought out in their pure state and in this form it no longer bears the birth-marks of its origin. The <a href="/wiki/Social_relations" class="mw-redirect" title="Social relations">social relation</a> is consummated in the relation of a thing, of money, to itself.—Instead of the actual transformation of money into capital, we see here only form without content.</p><div class="templatequotecite">— <cite><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1894-c3/ch24.htm">"Das Kapital", vol.3, ch. 24</a></cite></div></blockquote> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Markets_with_social_influence">Markets with social influence</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Capital_accumulation&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Markets with social influence"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Product recommendations and information about past purchases have been shown to influence consumers choices significantly whether it is for music, movie, book, technological, and other type of products. Social influence often induces a rich-get-richer phenomenon (<a href="/wiki/Matthew_effect" title="Matthew effect">Matthew effect</a>) where popular products tend to become even more popular.<sup id="cite_ref-altszyler2017_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-altszyler2017-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Capital_accumulation&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1184024115">.mw-parser-output .div-col{margin-top:0.3em;column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .div-col-small{font-size:90%}.mw-parser-output .div-col-rules{column-rule:1px solid #aaa}.mw-parser-output .div-col dl,.mw-parser-output .div-col ol,.mw-parser-output .div-col ul{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .div-col li,.mw-parser-output .div-col dd{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}</style><div class="div-col" style="column-width: 25em;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Business_cycle" title="Business cycle">Business cycle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Capitalist_mode_of_production_(Marxist_theory)" title="Capitalist mode of production (Marxist theory)">Capitalist mode of production (Marxist theory)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charity_(practice)" title="Charity (practice)">Charity (practice)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Commodity_fetishism" title="Commodity fetishism">Commodity fetishism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Constant_purchasing_power_accounting" title="Constant purchasing power accounting">Constant purchasing power accounting</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Culture_of_capitalism" title="Culture of capitalism">Culture of capitalism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dual-sector_model" title="Dual-sector model">Dual-sector model</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/History_of_capitalist_theory" title="History of capitalist theory">History of capitalist theory</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Internal_contradictions_of_capital_accumulation" title="Internal contradictions of capital accumulation">Internal contradictions of capital accumulation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Investment-specific_technological_progress" title="Investment-specific technological progress">Investment-specific technological progress</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Matthew_effect" title="Matthew effect">Matthew effect</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Organic_crisis" title="Organic crisis">Organic crisis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Preferential_attachment" title="Preferential attachment">Preferential attachment</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Prices_of_production" title="Prices of production">Prices of production</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Primitive_socialist_accumulation" title="Primitive socialist accumulation">Primitive socialist accumulation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Productive_and_unproductive_labour" title="Productive and unproductive labour">Productive and unproductive labour</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Proletarianization" title="Proletarianization">Proletarianization</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Property_income" title="Property income">Property income</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Relations_of_production" title="Relations of production">Relations of production</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Return_on_capital" title="Return on capital">Return on capital</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Simple_commodity_production" title="Simple commodity production">Simple commodity production</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Surplus_value" title="Surplus value">Surplus value</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_rich_get_richer_and_the_poor_get_poorer" title="The rich get richer and the poor get poorer">The rich get richer and the poor get poorer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Unearned_income" title="Unearned income">Unearned income</a></li> <li><a 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It is a logic that defines rational decision-making, namely optimizing profits by maximizing revenue from sales while minimizing costs...The case is better understood if one takes into account that accumulation is the mainspring (according to Marx, the invariable accompaniment and virtually the definition) of capitalism."</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Definition_of_Capital,_Marxist_Internet_Archive_Encyclopedia-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Definition_of_Capital,_Marxist_Internet_Archive_Encyclopedia_3-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><i>Capital</i>, Encyclopedia on Marxists.org: <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="https://marxists.org/glossary/terms/c/a.htm#capital">http://marxists.org/glossary/terms/c/a.htm#capital</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">See generally: Mitchell et al, <i>Goff & Jones Law of Unjust Enrichment</i> (Sweet & Maxwell, 8th ed, 2011); Graham Virgo, <i>The Principles of the Law of Restitution</i> (3rd ed, 2015); Andrew Burrows, <i>The Law of Restitution</i> (3rd ed, 2011); Mason, Carter, and Tolhurst, <i>Mason & Carter's Restitution Law in Australia</i> (LexisNexis, 2nd ed, 2008). 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