Austrian Capital Theory holds that capital assets are heterogeneous and complementary. In business language, that means an entrepreneur can assemble set of assets that are special to his or her firm and combined in such a way that the combination is unique, or at least hard to copy. If the assets generate consumer value, and hence a revenue stream from consumer purchases, then the entrepreneurial firm can be said to have marketplace advantage—it is unique or advantaged in its creation of consumer value. The Resource-Based View (RBV) of the firm came from this thinking. The marketplace advantage available to any firm results from its assembled resources (synonymous with assets for the purposes of our discussion). We talk to Professor Steven Phelan (Mises.org/Phelan), Distinguished Professor at Fayetteville State University, an expert in this field. Note: The conventional language of RBV is competitive advantage. At Economics For Entrepreneurs, we prefer the idea of the search for uniqueness, where the point of reference is the consumer rather than the competitor. Therefore, we’ll use terms like marketplace advantage and commercial advantage. Show Notes: https://mises.org/library/how-assemble-winning-combination-resources-%E2%80%94-steven-phelan "PROFIT": https://mises-media.s3.amazonaws.com/Resourced-Based%20Theory%20of%20Entrepreneurship.pdf