capital good

English

Noun

capital good (plural capital goods)

1. (economics, chiefly in the plural) A durable item that is used in the production of other goods or services.

   Synonym: producers' good

   Coordinate term: consumer good

   • 2004, Fabrio Petri, General Equilibrium, Capital And Macroeconomics: A Key To Recent Controversies In Equilibrium Theory, page 84:

     Some of the products of the economy are capital goods. For simplicity and as an aid to intuition, I assume that capital goods and consumption goods do not overlap: the m consumption goods are useless as means of production, and the n capital goods yield no direct utility.

Translations

Translations

• Finnish: pääomahyödyke, tuotantohyödyke (fi)
• French: bien d’équipement m, bien de production m
• Georgian: საწარმო საშუალებები (sac̣armo sašualebebi), კაპიტალური კეთილდღეობა (ḳaṗiṭaluri ḳetildɣeoba)
• Icelandic: fjárfestingarvörur f pl
• Polish: dobro kapitałowe n
• Russian: сре́дство произво́дства (ru) n (srédstvo proizvódstva), капита́льное бла́го n (kapitálʹnoje blágo)

See also

• means of production