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Economic Surplus

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Economic surplus
For any entity, the difference between the market value of all its assets and the market value of its liabilities.

Economic Surplus
The value of a company or other organization's total assets less its total liabilities.


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Dependent on slave labour until 1888, income and land were highly concentrated throughout, thus contributing to the thin domestic market, while the economic surplus from export activity largely remained abroad or was spent on importing goods.
What is required, says Cox, is a radical downshifting of elite consumption in the developed world and something akin to a "back to the land" movement to localize now dispersed economies and to distribute a safe level of economic surplus to now deprived communities.
 
 
 
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