Definitions of capital and quasi-capital: see the previous chapter.
1. The Objective Political Economy gives the noun "profit" an unequivocal meaning.
In this sense, profit is the effective remuneration for the permanent financing of an enterprise.
2. The profit thus defined is always a financial product for those who receive it.
However, this financial product is only income when it is in return for a placement in capital. The profit received in return for a placement in quasi-capital is onlyCapital_Quasi_Capital a financial product, and not also an income.
3. Profit thus defined has a status and functions of its own.
The economic status of profit thus defined lies in the fact that it is the end of a commodity exchange whose other term is the putting into capital or quasi-capital. The functions that this status confers are part of what economic science must elucidate. The remuneration of placement in capital or quasi-capital raises the following three questions:133