The accrual of capital goods — tools, machinery, infrastructure, inventories — through production and saving. The process by which an economy builds its capacity to produce; in the essay's argument, the virtuous engine that feeds both baker and worker, and the primary target of the fiat order's frictions.
Labour draws an income as a derivative of this process of capital formation.
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