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In education, resources can refer to textbooks, computers, physical spaces, and human beings.

Conversely, the work "capital" can be used to refer to funds but also to non-fund resources, like "human capital".

Caught in a particularly irritating discussion on this issue right now at my place of employment so well aware that it means more than money when talked about within a company.

I suppose when we are talking about it in a political sense it also ties back to political capital and will.

Bryant

>>>>In education, resources can refer to textbooks, computers, physical spaces, and human beings. >>>>

In which case the use of the word ( "resources&quot is *usually* redundant. (Or not quite honest.)

The ED world is a most grievous offender in this regard. ( So much bullshit being thrown around in all directions; as I think we both know.)

I'd hire a lawyer and sue all the M-friggers for language abuse but I don't have the ..... ummmmmm........ "resources."

maybe I don't understand your example

but nowadays, I found it is just what NYC_SKP wrote - money, people, supplies, facilities, etc.

It's because so they can compare and add them up easily.

Human workpower, attributes of a certain machine, quantity and quality of natural ressources, infrastructure... If you translate all of them into the same unit of measurement (money), it is far easier to handle them when combining them into one system.

Let's take your example:

I presume this is about something along the lines of someone "running out of money" or a similar horrible economic situation.

One of the resources I have that isn't money is a decent credit rating. I can convert some of that into money. Someone with a bad credit rating can't. For example, I couldn't do this back when I had a lousy credit rating.

Another resource I have is a spouse who can work, but currently is not working. If I somehow became unable to work, she could in order to put food on our table. That resource provides a certain degree of comfort - it's not all on me.

Another resource I have is family members who would gladly welcome me and my family into their home if I lost mine. That's a resource that isn't money - I know my kids won't be homeless. No close family, or family with no room to spare, and that isn't an option.