capital
Let an agent explain capital by economic, accounting and theoretical senses, cite sources and theories with attribution, and avoid personal investment advice.
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Kinds Types of capital.
Type
Which capital.
Type
Capital type.
- Is physical, financial, human or another kind of capital meant? definition
- How is it measured? measurement
Data
Statistics.
Data
Capital statistics.
- What do national accounts show about capital stock or investment here? provenance
- For which year? provenance
Accounting Equity.
Equity
Owners equity.
Equity
Equity.
- How is capital shown on this balance sheet? definition
- What is working capital? definition
Banks
Capital requirements.
Banks
Bank capital.
- What capital requirements apply to banks under Basel rules? provenance
- How are ratios calculated? measurement
Theory Economic thought.
Schools
Views.
Schools
Theories of capital.
- How do classical, Marxian and neoclassical economists describe capital? provenance
- Are views attributed rather than asserted? boundary
Advice
Limits.
Advice
Advice limits.
- Is the user asking how to invest their own capital? boundary
- How should the agent point to regulated advice? action
Senses Disambiguation.
City
Capital city.
City
Capital city sense.
- Is a capital city meant? boundary
- Which entry fits? action
Other
Letters and columns.
Other
Other senses.
- Is a capital letter or the top of a column meant? boundary
- Which entry fits? action
Classifiers Filled
- Family
- Thing Registry
- Category
- Information and virtual systems
- Entry kind
- thing
- Plane
- INF
- Domain
- INF.KNW
- Other names and narrower kinds
- human capital, intellectual capital, productivity slowdown, Capital (marixian), earned capital, financial capital, constant and variable capital, constant capital, authorised capital, natural capital, bank capital, debt capital
What it is Filled
In economics, resources used to produce goods and services, including physical capital such as machinery and buildings, financial capital, and by extension human, intellectual and social capital; in accounting, capital is the owners equity in a business. Capital cities and capital letters are different senses.
Why it exists Filled
Let an agent explain capital by economic, accounting and theoretical senses, cite sources and theories with attribution, and avoid personal investment advice.
Distinguishing features Filled
- Used in production
- Accumulated over time
- Measured in several ways
- Central to economic theories
What robots and AI may and may not do Filled
Must not
- Present estimates of human or social capital as precise facts about individuals.
- Give personalized investment advice on how a person should deploy their capital.
- Misstate an organization's capital or reserves in reports others rely on.
- Help conceal the source or ownership of capital from authorities entitled to know it.
Only with a human decision
- Committing an organization's capital to an investment or purchase.
May
- Explain the forms of capital and how they are measured, citing economic sources.
- Report capital figures from published accounts or official statistics with their date.
Moral aspects Filled
- Who holds capital shapes inequality between people and between countries.
- Treating people as human capital can reduce them to their economic output.
Who is affected
- Workers and savers
- Investors
- Communities affected by investment decisions
Owners Filled
Steward
Nobody owns the concept; the holder of an asset answers for it, and national statistics offices measure it.
Links to other meta-models Filled
parent
- Q1554231 - registry parent class
- Q3736009 - registry parent class
related
- resource - category
- production - role
- investment - flow
- capital city - another sense
What else AI and robots need to interact with it Filled
Identity and identifiers required Filled
- Vercy registry: vr.tr.capital
- Wikidata: Q8137 (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8137)
Direct properties not applicable Not applicable
Not applicable
Plane INF: no invented physical properties.
Recognition optional Filled
- Capital stock and investment data
- Equity on a balance sheet
- A capital city is a place
- Not a single object; machinery, buildings, money, skills and balance sheet figures.
Capabilities and actions required Filled
- distinguish kinds of capital
- explain capital in accounts
- summarise theories of capital with attribution
- separate other senses of capital
Hazards and failure modes required Filled
- Mixing economic and accounting senses
- Presenting contested theories as settled
- Agents giving investment advice
Standards and interfaces required Filled
- System of National Accounts
- IFRS on equity
- Bank capital requirements (Basel III)
Context of use required Filled
- Economic analysis, accounting and business finance.
- physical capital
- financial capital
- human capital
- intellectual and social capital
- equity capital in accounting
Sources Filled
- Wikidata item Q8137: capital - identity and sense of the item
- Wikipedia: Capital (economics) - general description of the item
Open questions
- Should kinds of capital be separate entries?
- How should national accounts data be linked?
- How should other senses be split off?
Machine files
Provenance
thing registry research (pass 2) · unreviewed
Built from: models/things/publications/thing-q8137/spec.json