Where does investment collide?

In economics and finance, investment is the commitment of resources now, by a firm or an economy, to build a stock of productive capital expected to yield returns later, so that current spending on plant and equipment is traded against future output. Jorgenson and Stephenson's 1967 Investment behavior in U.S. manufacturing, 1947–1960 in Econometrica modelled this neoclassically, linking the desired capital stock to output and the cost of capital and deriving the path of investment that closes the gap. The referent is a flow of capital formation measured in money over time, and it shares only the word with a refractory casting mould or a parent's care of offspring.[1]

Unit

The flow of capital formation committed for future return, measured in money

Recovery means

Not applicable

Measured by

Measured by capital expenditure flows against desired capital stock, output, and the cost of capital

In evolutionary ecology, parental investment is any contribution a parent makes to one offspring that raises that offspring's chance of surviving and reproducing at the cost of the parent's ability to invest in others. Trivers's classic 1972 chapter Parental investment and sexual selection argued that the sex investing more becomes the limiting resource the other competes for, which shapes mating systems and sexual selection. The referent is a fitness cost paid per offspring, measured in survival and future-reproduction currency rather than money or refractory slurry, and it is a distinct construct that merely borrows the economic metaphor of spending for return.[2]

Unit

The fitness cost a parent pays per offspring, traded against future reproduction

Recovery means

Not applicable

Measured by

Estimated from parental effort and its effects on offspring survival weighed against the parent's residual reproductive value