Civilized countries generally adopt gold or silver or both as money.
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In the absence of any short term in common use to represent all desirable things, or things that satisfy human wants, we may use the term Goods for that purpose.Alfred Marshall
Capital is that part of wealth which is devoted to obtaining further wealth.
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Individual and national rights to wealth rest on the basis of civil and international law, or at least of custom that has the force of law.
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