capital and labor

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“Believing, as we do, that a division of our earnings between capital and labor is unequal, we have sought a plan of relief suitable for our business,” Ford told reporters gathered in his office.

From Barron's • May 20, 2026

The divergence between capital and labor helps explain the disconnect between a buoyant economy and pessimistic households.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 10, 2026

“They were able to provide services better with the capital and labor they had on hand,” said another study co-author, Marcella Alsan, a professor of public policy at the Harvard Kennedy School.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 13, 2025

Economies grow not only by adding more capital and labor.

From New York Times • May 24, 2022

The relations of capital and labor, of the property-holders to the non-property-holders, were things about which no one had thought or written.

From Cannibals all! or, Slaves without masters by Fitzhugh, George