Since economic profit includes these extra opportunity costs, it will always be less than or equal to accounting profit. Lipsey (1975) uses the example of a firm sitting on an expensive plot worth $10,000 a month in rent which it bought for a mere $50 a hundred years before.
When Steve Jobs passed away in October 2011, most of his assets passed on to his wife, making her one of the 50 richest people in the world. Laurene Powell Jobs, 52, married the tech mogul in 1991 - ten years before the release of the first iPod - and now manages a $16.7bn fortune according to Forbes. She owns, among other things, two private jets, four real estate properties and shares of the Walt Disney Company and Apple, Business Insider reported.
October 27, 2011. Editor's Note: This is the third part of a short series of posts as I read Steve Jobs, the new biography of the Apple co-founder written by Walter Isaacson. When Steve Jobs returned to Apple in 1997, the tech company he co-founded more than two decades earlier was on the brink of failure. During the final quarter of 1996, Apple's sales plummeted by 30 percent. Microsoft was the dominant computer company in the market.