Sentences with phrase «capita real wealth»

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Countries can force up economic growth rates (actual the growth rate of economic activity) simply by mobilizing savings and forcing up investment rates, but ultimately their inability to absorb continuously the higher levels of capital mean that they can not push real wealth per capita beyond some fairly hard constraint represented by their institutional inability to absorb investment.

Real reproducible, tangible wealth per capita rose at the decadal peak in American history in the 1880s, at 3.8 percent per annum.

Let us assume for this exercise that around $ 15,000 per capita constitutes a «happiness threshold» where real improvements in welfare and happiness stops being strongly correlated with increased wealth, as some social researchers contend.