" Capitalism ," as anarcho-capitalists employ the term, is not to be confused with state monopoly capitalism, crony capitalism, corporatism, or contemporary mixed economies, wherein market incentives and disincentives may be altered by state action.

Capitalism is an economic system that is based on private ownership of the means of production and the creation of goods or services for profit.

Capitalism is considered to have been applied in a variety of historical cases, varying in time, geography, politics, and culture.

Capitalism is the system of raising, conserving and spending a set monetary value in a specified market.

Guattari is best known for his intellectual collaborations with Gilles Deleuze, most notably Anti-Oedipus ( 1972 ) and A Thousand Plateaus ( 1980 ), the two volumes of Capitalism and Schizophrenia.

The identification of the " free market " with " laissez faire " was notably used in the 1962 Capitalism and Freedom, by economist Milton Friedman, which is credited with popularizing this usage.

* May 18 is International Day of Capitalism

Weber is perhaps best known for his thesis combining economic sociology and the sociology of religion, elaborated in his book The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, in which he proposed that ascetic Protestantism was one of the major " elective affinities " associated with the rise in the Western world of market-driven capitalism and the rational-legal nation-state.

Weber's essay The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism is his most famous work.

In Capitalism and Freedom, he argued that conscription is inequitable and arbitrary, preventing young men from shaping their lives as they see fit.

That idea is included in Capitalism and Freedom, in which he declared that economic freedom is not only desirable in itself but is also a necessary condition for political freedom.

Capitalism is very far from a perfect system, but so far we have yet to find anything that clearly does a better job of meeting human needs than a regulated capitalist economy coupled with a welfare and health care system that meets the basic needs of those who do not thrive in the capitalist economy.

The main difference between these theories is whether they view Capitalism as a friend or foe.

A variant of this set of definitions is Joseph Schumpeter's argument, set out in Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy ( 1941 ), that liberal democracies were evolving from " liberal capitalism " into democratic socialism, with the growth of workers ' self-management, industrial democracy and regulatory institutions.

Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution is a 1999 book co-authored by Paul Hawken, Amory Lovins and Hunter Lovins.

Natural Capitalism is a critique of traditional " Industrial Capitalism ", saying that the traditional system of capitalism " does not fully conform to its own accounting principles.

However, there have been many predecessors: Benjamin Franklin described the concept as " time is money " in his Advice to a Young Tradesman, Written by an Old One ( 1748 ), quoted by Max Weber in his The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism ( 1905 ):

Natural capital is described in the book Natural Capitalism as a metaphor for the mineral, plant, and animal formations of the Earth's biosphere when viewed as a means of production of oxygen, water filter, erosion preventer, or provider of other ecosystem services.

Social Capital is also distinguished from the economic theory Social Capitalism.

Each of these media is a direct product of Capitalism — they are all now substantial industries — and as such they are driven by the same profit-fixated motives of other sectors of manufacturing, not the ideals of true art.

* Monopoly Capitalism, marked by the rise of monopolies and trusts dominating industry, as well as other aspects of society.

The past usefulness of the anti-trust laws to management was explained by Thurman Arnold, in The Folklore of Capitalism, back in 1937.

Capitalism entails the private ownership of the latter two — natural resources and capital goods — by a class of owners called capitalists, either individually, collectively or through a state apparatus that operates for a profit or serves the interests of capital owners.

An essay by Gary Hull ( Ayn Rand Institute ) in Capitalism magazine criticizes:

In the course of developing the Russian application of Marxism, the pamphlet Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism ( 1916 ) presented Lenin ’ s analysis of an economic development predicted by Karl Marx: that capitalism would become a global financial system, wherein advanced industrial countries export financial capital to their colonial countries, to finance the exploitation of their natural resources and the labour of the native populations.

Capitalism: A Treatise on Economics by George Reisman ( 1996 ) attempts to integrate Objectivist methodology and insights with both Classical and Austrian economics.

It was the outcome of the Industrial Revolution and Capitalism, as to solve the problems created by it.

The term and metaphor were first used by E. F. Schumacher in his book Small Is Beautiful and are closely identified with Herman Daly, Robert Costanza, the Biosphere 2 project, and the Natural Capitalism economic model of Paul Hawken, Amory Lovins, and Hunter Lovins until recently, when it began to be used by politicians, notably Ralph Nader, Paul Martin Jr., and agencies of the UK government including the London Health Observatory.

In Washington he completed the manuscript of his masterwork – Capitalism and Slavery – which was published by the University of North Carolina in 1944.

* Capitalism versus Socialism in Underwater Archaeology by E. Lee Spence

* Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism ( 1916 ), by Lenin

In Noise & Capitalism, edited by Anthony and Mattin Iles, 104 – 20.

At its most basic, " creative destruction " ( German: schöpferische Zerstörung ) describes the way in which capitalist economic development arises out of the destruction of some prior economic order, and this is largely the sense implied by the German Marxist sociologist Werner Sombart who has been credited with the first use of these terms in his work Krieg und Kapitalismus (" War and Capitalism ", 1913 ).

In Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy ( 1942 ), Joseph Schumpeter developed the concept out of a careful reading of Marx ’ s thought ( to which the whole of Part I of the book is devoted ), arguing ( in Part II ) that the creative-destructive forces unleashed by capitalism would eventually lead to its demise as a system ( see below ).

The expression " creative destruction " was popularized by and is most associated with Joseph Schumpeter, particularly in his book Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy, first published in 1942.

: Capitalism [...] is by nature a form or method of economic change and not only never is but never can be stationary.

His wife chose the phrase " Murdered by Capitalism " for his marker which inspired the 2004 book by John Ross.

His analyses of art, cinema, youth culture, economics, and power formations, develop concepts such as " micropolitics ," " schizoanalysis ," and " becoming-woman ," which aim to liberate subjectivity and open up new horizons for political and creative resistance to the standardizing and homogenizing processes of global capitalism ( which he calls " Integrated World Capitalism ") in the " postmedia era.

Progress can proceed by competition between but not within tribes, and it is limited by ecological borders or by Natural Capitalism incentives which attempt to mimic the pressure of natural selection on a human society by forcing it to adapt consciously to scarce energy or materials.

Capitalism is a system based on competition between free producers using free labor with free commodities, ' free ' meaning its available for sale and purchase on a market.

A typical Atlantiker was Protestant and believed in free market economy, a typical Gaullist was Catholic and tended toward Rhine Capitalism with its more regulated markets and state intervention.

* Studies in Language & Capitalism ( peer-reviewed free online journal, from 2006 )

False Dawn: The Delusions of Global Capitalism is a 1998 book by political philosopher John Gray that argues that free market globalization is unstable and is in the process of collapsing.

* False Dawn: The Delusions of Global Capitalism: A 1998 book by political philosopher John N. Gray which argues that free market Globalization is unstable and is in the process of collapsing.

For this reason, Capitalism is " production for exchange " driven by the desire for personal accumulation of money receipts in such exchanges, mediated by free markets.

He found capitalism as being the doctrine of individual, free enterprise, mass production and balance of power based-‘ peace .’ Capitalism imposed the peace of death on Asia and elsewhere, caused their population to grow and their economic apparatus to decay, Lohia stated.

In the year 2000, Computer Gaming World named Capitalism among the fifteen most difficult games ever, saying: " is so complicated it should come with a free MBA in every box.