Revisiting the two Cambridge schools for the current controversy

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Abstract
The measurement of capital has generated great controversy between the University of Cambridge (Great Britain) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology of Cambridge (United States of America). The debate took place mainly during the golden age of capitalism and was not fully resolved, although, certainly, today it is frequent to study Economics without paying attention to it. In short, it is an unfinished question, where it does not even seem that there is currently a consensus to admit what its main results were. The problem arises when we accept that investments allow future consumption and, therefore, we equate these capital assets with goods / products. For its part, the British school argued that capital should be understood as an instrument that attempts to safeguard economic value. On the other hand, the North American side considered that capital should be an instrument of economic value that varies according to the laws of the free market.