Chapter IX: Section VII: Resources Or Means (Vermögen)

_Resources_, or _means_, in the sense in which we here use the term, are the aggregate of economic goods owned by a physical or legal person, after deduction is made of the person’s debts, and all valuable and rightful claims have been added.(91) Hence, there are private resources, corporative resources, municipal resources, etc., state resources, national resources and the world’s resources. In estimating the resources of a whole people, it is, of course, necessary to make deduction of the debts due by the individual members of the nation to their fellow countrymen.