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Manufacturing

Economy; Economics

Making things like cars or frozen food has shrunk in importance in most developed countries during the past half century as services have grown. In the United States and the UK, the proportion of ...

Capital controls

Economy; Economics

Government-imposed restrictions on the ability of capital to move in or out of a country. Examples include limits on foreign investment in a country's financial markets, on direct investment by ...

Capital asset pricing model (CAMP)

Economy; Economics

A method of valuing assets and calculating the cost of capital (for an alternative, see arbitrage pricing theory). The capital asset pricing model (CAPM) has come to dominate modern finance. The ...

The ratio of a bank's capital to its total assets, required by regulators to be above a minimum ("adequate") level so that there is little risk of the bank going bust. How high this minimum level is ...

Capital

Economy; Economics

Money or assets put to economic use, the life-blood of capitalism. Economists describe capital as one of the four essential ingredients of economic activity, the factors of production, along with ...

Capacity

Economy; Economics

The amount a company or an economy can produce using its current equipment, workers, capital and other resources at full tilt. Judging how close an economy is to operating at full capacity is an ...

Cannibalise

Economy; Economics

Eating people is wrong. Eating your own business may not be. Firms used to be reluctant to launch new products and services that competed with what they were already doing, as the new thing would eat ...