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'capitalism' is a correct and usable word in written English.
It is used to describe an economic system based on private ownership of businesses, investment in production for profit, and the market exchange of goods and services. Example sentence: Capitalism has allowed for unprecedented economic growth in recent decades.
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capitalism
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A socio-economic system based on private property rights, including the private ownership of resources or capital, with economic decisions made largely through the operation of a market unregulated by the state.
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Put crudely, if growth is high and the returns on capital can be suppressed, you can have a more equal capitalism.
These days, the best Hollywood can offer these is indulgent critiques of capitalism such as The Wolf of Wall Street, or David-and-Goliath issue movies such as Silkwood (starring Meryl Streep), or North Country, in which Charlize Theron proved women can be coal miners and have a perfect complexion.
For the north's economic problems do not stem from a lack of tech-startups or an inability to cross the Pennines at lightning-quick speed; they are borne of successive crises of capitalism, each of which leaving behind their own uncompromising legacy.
Orbán has already expressed his sympathy for "capitalism with Asian values"; if the European pressure on Orbán continues, we can easily imagine him sending a message to the east: 'We are defending Asia here!' Today's anti-immigrant populism has replaced direct barbarism with a barbarism that has a human face.
If Ukraine ends up with a mixture of ethnic fundamentalism and liberal capitalism, with oligarchs pulling the strings, it will be as European as Russia (or Hungary) is today.
When Newman penned his latest piece for The Australian on how climate change science is a conspiracy, he claimed the United Nations was "opposed to capitalism and freedom" and how climate action was a campaign for "authoritarians".
What the duration of this recession surely shows is how dysfunctional the three interlocking pillars of British capitalism have become.
His libertarianism, if implemented, would be nothing short of a social and economic disaster; but his critique of crony capitalism – of the fusion between corporate interests and the state – is one many on the left could easily identify with.
Workers' parties might have told you it was the fault of global capitalism.
Even non-believers have been moved by the radicalism of his message, decrying runaway materialism, "unbridled capitalism" and a cult of money that he condemns as latter-day idol worship.
Finally it seems like capitalism is having its way with the television industry.
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