Capitalism

The definition of State Capitalism is "an economic system that is primarily capitalistic, but there is some degree of government ownership of the means of production" (http://www.wordnetweb.Princeton.edu/perl/webn) or a capitalist system where the government runs businesses. A popular example of state capitalism is the economy of China, where the state owns thousands of companies.

A free market is a theoretical term that economists use to describe a market which is free from governenment intervention, such as no regulation, and minimal government ownership. Examples of this form would be Somalia or Afghanistan.

Most capitalist economies fit inbetween these two extremes. The economy of the United States is a free-market economy but also favors a small degree of state enterprise and public goods provided by the state.

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Capitalism allows people to own private property, have the right to gain wealth and compete in the market. This promotes a growing economy where competing industries produce higher-quality products. Capitalism also allows individuals to earn money based on the importance of their role in society. If doctors didn't earn more than carpenters, no one would become a doctor and we'd have a shortage. This system encourages people to contribute to the economy, thereby gaining wealth for themselves and promoting wealth for others.

Capitalism is not without it's flaws, and there are many different forms of it.

(see the related link for a historical perspective on Western capitalism)

Capitalism is an economic system. Mercantilism is trading.

The term more often used for such a form of capitalism is LAISSEZ-FAIRE ECONOMICS.

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Free enterprise exists regardless of the risks involved for the business people so long as they can make a profit. Capitalism is a dream of the very wealthy to fore go any responsibility in relation to the place that they occupy in society and be able to accrue wealth without necessarily putting any thing back into society.

government control of business

for the short term yes, communist states can exist with capitalist states, possibly for hundred of years, however if marx is right someday the revolution will be worldwide and capitalism will cease to be the domanate mode of prodution, when that day comes those is unknown and is likly hundreds of years in the future. right know humanities most pressing issue is to stope climate change from becoming out of controll.

Some would say the Industrial Revolution came between the two and formed the transition.

Another view is that mercantilism, which arose during the later half of the Middle Ages, and is exemplified by the activities of the Hanseatic League, and the banking system that arose after the disbanding of the Knights Templar, gave rise to a system sufficiently like capitalism to go by that name.

He pursued o policy of active gov't intervention in the economy, called the New Deal. It included an increased program of public works. The Works Progress Administration (WPA), established in 1935, was a gov't organization employing about 3 million people at its highest. Workers built bridges, roads, post offices, and airports.

Roosevelt also created a U.S. welfare system. it gave old-age pensions and unemployment insurance.

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capitalism: wages, production for sale, class ownership of the means of production

Free-market capitalism is based on free markets, private ownership of the means of production, and limited regulations and some government provided goods and services.

Mixed capitalism has more heavily regulated markets, mainly private ownership of the means of production but also features a greater role for state-owned enterprises, and usually has economic intervention in markets to correct market failures.

Both are similar in that they are both based on the process of capital accumulation, both systems attempt to maximize private profits, and both are mainly privately-owned.

In some ways, it can help individuals. You know there is no government to help nor hinder you, so you understand well that you will either sink or swim. You know that if you want anything in life, you will have to work hard and make it happen. You would be able to call nearly all the shots with your own money. If you become one of the strong ones, you can make it.

However, there are downsides. Not everyone can compete in a capitalist world. Because of handicaps and discrimination, not everyone would have the same chances of getting ahead. So a system designed to make everyone strong as individuals may actually make some weaker. As a result, those who cannot compete in a capitalist world may turn to crime or otherwise take from others.

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The traits would be that of property ownership, free enterprise, market mechanism and limited government role.

== == Capitalism has, and has had, many supporters and had no founder because it developed gradually and naturally as the feudal arrangements of the Middle Ages gave way. You may be thinking though of Adam Smith whose book, "The Wealth of Nations", published in 1776, gave the first and most important analysis of the principles on which it is based. Economists still study it to this day.

They allowed investors to take fewer risks.

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However, the general difference between mercantilism and capitalism is that mercantilism is more restrictive than capitalism. Mercantilism is the economic policy that a metropole should have a number of colonies that provide it material wealth, unrefined resources, and a market for its goods. As a result, according to mercantilism, the colonies were required to engage in two general behaviors: (1) The colonies were locked into exclusive trade between the colonies and the metropole and were not allowed to trade with any other nation or colony. (2) No manufactures or complex goods could be made in the colonial territory. As a result the colonies would provide wealth to the metropole by trading their natural resources for less than they would be worth and by buying manufactures for much more money.

As a result, entrepreneurial colonists that wanted to make manufactures or to trade with other parties engaged in smuggling. This kind of smuggling disappears significantly when trade restrictions are lifted.

companies compete for profits. just finished my quiz on apex. :)

That is a good question. Considerable individual choice is one characteristic that both share. In a democratic society the citizen is encouraged to participate (or at least he should be encouraged) and Capitalism is free-ranging and multi-optional with opportunities you can create for yourself.

Democracy and Capitalism are not either/or. But they are not the same thing either. Opportunities in democracy and opportunities in Capitalism should be encouraged in both if both are to succeed.

Max Weber defines "spirit of capitalism" as the ideas and esprit that favor the rational pursuit of economic gain.

To what extend did the new deal strengthen or weaken the usa capitalism?