Capital matters to most corporations in free markets, but there are differences. Companies in non-financial industries need equity capital mainly to support funding to buy property and to build or ...

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Financial institutions are increasingly using economic capital models to help determine the amount of capital they need to absorb unexpected losses. These models typically aggregate capital based on ...

British Journal of Sociology of Education, Vol. 27, No. 2 (Apr., 2006), pp. 221-235 (15 pages) While economic capital is not synonymous with cultural, social or symbolic capital in either its ...

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