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Multiple choice economics concept of consumption function, saving function and investment function capital economy of a village wealth, capital and money

Which capital includes durable consumer goods, inventories and intermediate goods?

  1. Human capital.

  2. Physical capital.

  3. External capital.

  4. Floating capital.
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Floating capital (also known as circulating capital) refers to assets that are consumed or transformed during the production process, such as raw materials, inventories, and intermediate goods, as opposed to fixed capital.

Multiple choice economics concept of consumption function, saving function and investment function capital economy of a village wealth, capital and money

"Capital is the produced means of production". Who gave this definition?

  1. Bohm Bawerk

  2. J.K. Hicks

  3. Von Sickle and Roger

  4. Prof. Samuelson
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Bohm Bawerk proclaimed that "Capital is the produced means of production". Capital is already a produced means as other factors of production are used to produce capital in an economy.

Multiple choice economics concept of consumption function, saving function and investment function capital economy of a village wealth, capital and money

Which of the following is/are the stages of capital formation?

  1. Creation of savings

  2. Effective mobilization of savings

  3. Investment in savings

  4. All of these
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The three stages of capital formation are:-
1) Creation of savings-Collective savings of individuals in an economy leads to creation of savings.
2) Effective mobilization of savings-Savings should be properly allocated to different purposes.
3) Investment in savings-Savings should be properly invested by the economy which will yield better productivity and help to increase the rate of existing capital formation.
Multiple choice economics concept of consumption function, saving function and investment function capital economy of a village wealth, capital and money

Why is capital a passive factor of production?

  1. Because it becomes ineffective without cooperation of labour

  2. Because it becomes ineffective without land

  3. Because it becomes ineffective without entrepreneurs

  4. Because it becomes ineffective without natural resources
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Without the presence of labour factor of production ,capital is of no use,hence capital is a passive factor of production. Without labour , capital will not get utilized in the production mechanism. Capital without the accompany of the labour cannot produce any goods and services in an economy.

Multiple choice economics concept of consumption function, saving function and investment function capital economy of a village wealth, capital and money

Capital Formation means ___________________.

  1. A sustained increase in the stock of real capital in a country.

  2. Production of more capital goods, which are used for further production of goods.

  3. Investment

  4. All of the above
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Capital formation encompasses the entire process of increasing the stock of real capital, which includes the production of capital goods and the act of investment that adds to the productive capacity of the economy.