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# Fixed Capital

## Definition

Capital employed in improving land, purchasing productive machinery, or acquiring instruments of trade that yield revenue or profit without changing masters or requiring circulation.

## Source Chapter

Book II, Chapter 1

## Context

Distinguished from circulating capital as the form that generates profit through productive improvements and durable assets rather than through exchange and circulation.

## Economic Domain

Production

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