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Intangible Capital

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Intangible capital has played an increasingly important role in economic growth, although firm-level financial and national income accounting practices provide little information about intangibles and do not count many purchases of intangible capital as investment.

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Sichel, D.E. (2018). Intangible Capital. In: The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95189-5_2304

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