Capital

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Capital (from the Latin cāpot~cāpitis, head) can refer to the following concepts:

Economy and finance

  • Capital (economy), social relation of production. It's money that gets independent and becomes an autonomous subject.
  • Financial capital, amount of money borrowed or imposed, of which the interest charged by the loan is distinguished.
  • Capital account, one of the two main components of the balance of payment.
  • Capital requirements or Regulatory capital, minimum capital that a banking entity must have to be authorized to operate.
  • Economic capitalwhich the administrators themselves consider necessary to address the risks of the banking business.
  • Social capital, monetary amount, or value of the assets of the partners of a society.
  • Risk capitalfinancial operation with high potential and risk
  • Seed capital, type of stock offer in which an investor acquires a part of a business or company.
  • Expansion capital, type of investment of minority participation in mature companies for its expansion.
  • Constant capital, mass of capital invested in means of production.
  • Variable capitalpart of the capital invested in labor force.
  • Capital investment, acquisition by a specialized entity of most shares of a Society.
  • Capital (cerveceria)Chilean company.

Geography

  • Capital (political), city or town where the public powers of a State, country, demarcation, province, etc reside.
  • Capital governorateOne of Baréin's five governorates.

Sociology

  • Cultural capital (sociology)cultural resources available to an individual.
  • Social capital (sociology), variable that measures the social collaboration between the different groups of a human group, and the individual use of the opportunities arising from it.

Literature and grammar

  • Letra capitalthat at the beginning of a paragraph or chapter that is larger than the rest.
  • The capital: (in German) Das Kapital), book by Karl Marx containing the most detailed exhibition of Marxist economic theory.
  • Capital of glory, book of stories written by Juan Eduardo Zúñiga

Cultural resources

  • Capital (review)Chilean biweekly publication.
  • Radio Capital, name of several radio stations.
  • Symbolic capital, cultural and social resources that receive prestige and have special symbolism in a society.

Furthermore

  • Capital (fortification), imaginary line understood at the binding point of a fortification.
  • Natural capitalnatural resources seen as means of production.
  • Capital ship, Anglo-Saxon concept applied to the most important warships
  • Pena capital or death penalty.
  • Capital losses, classification of sins in Christianity.

Media

  • Canal CapitalColombian television channel.