Investing in conservation, it argues, is of vital importance to human health and wealth, particularly in poor countries.
This led the way for new generations of venture capitalists, who now drive one of the most phenomenal creations of wealth in human history.
They are entitled to subsidies, state jobs, land grants, and free university education, the latter part of an effort to reinvest gas wealth in human capital, not just in shiny buildings.
Instead of relying only on profits generated by wealthy consumers in developed nations, truly innovative companies are inventing new wealth and fostering human potential in rapidly growing emerging markets.
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But easier movement of capital and goods has helped to make the world a much richer place in the past decade or two, and more human mobility has both created wealth and helped to share it out more equally.
"My wealth is from a human business, not a technology business, " Omidyar says during a long, late-day talk in Paris.
And investors and entrepreneurs who tap into it will be tapping into the greatest wealth creation event in human history.
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It means that a company is on balance increasing our overall stock of wealth, grounded in human, produced, financial, natural, and social capital.
As a private good, human capital increases personal income, household wealth, family stability, and healthiness.
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Management and investors lost, and so did society, say Mark Frigo and Joel Litman in their book, Driven: Business Strategy, Human Actions, and the Creation of Wealth.
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As McGill University economist Reuven Brenner pointed out so brilliantly in his essential book History: The Human Gamble, it is gaps in wealth that drive creativity among the citizenry.
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To be a middle-middle-class American in the early 21st century is to occupy the 99.99 percentile of human existence, in terms of nutrition, wealth and ease.
The drive for size was powered by a desire to be first to create blockbuster drugs out of the wealth of information arising from the Human Genome Project, completed in June.
But this Economic Revolution also brings more opportunity and more wealth creation capacity than anything any living human being has ever experienced.
Human capital represents 88% of Britain's wealth and 75% of America's.
This small sheikhdom of some 906, 000 people demonstrates anew that the true source of wealth is not "natural resources" but human ingenuity.
Are we so cocky as to believe that technology, wealth, education and deepening insights about the human genetic code have the power to banish conflict?
But, now, we know -- and you know -- that the true wealth of a nation is found in its human capital, in the skill, ingenuity, and determination of its people.
Land, which is a necessity of human existence, which is the original source of all wealth, which is strictly limited in extent, which is fixed in geographical position land, I say, differs from all other forms of property in these primary and fundamental conditions.
Money is not wealth but a useful unit of account tracking our human transactions.
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The real sources of wealth, as the Information Age underscores, are human ingenuity and human inventiveness, not physical resources.
Human goals are limited, and the same being to amass wealth with whatever fair or foul means he may have to employ.
The world's past wealth creation is outstripped every generation by innovation, human progress and the rapid growth of the above-subsistence population.
In the past, where most things of value were generated by human labor, we could maintain a fairly reasonable balance of wealth equality.
Human capital is an economic force that drives the accumulation of national wealth.
It may well accord with human perceptions of equity, of fairness, that those with great wealth should be taxed heavily on the returns they make from that wealth.
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Meanwhile, Sudanese officials have been quoted by various media and human rights groups as announcing outright that the country's newfound oil wealth will go toward beefing up its military.
Inherited wealth is still a big part of the story in Europe, as human longevity stretches ever further and inheritance waits longer.
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