Capitalism

In common usage capitalism refers to an economic system in which all or most of the means of production are privately owned and operated, and where investment and the production, distribution and prices of commodities (goods and services) are determined privately in a free market, rather than by the state. Those in control of the means of production generally run them for monetary profit. For examples of how capitalism has been defined by various sources, see .

Books

• Braudel, Fernand. Civilization and Capitalism : 15th - 18th Century 3 vols.
• Chandler, Alfred D., Jr. The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business. Cambridge, Mass., and London: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1977.
• Galbraith, John Kenneth. The New Industrial State, 4th ed., 1985.
• Harvey, David. "The Political-Economic Transformation of Late Twentieth Century Capitalism." In Harvey, David. The Condition of Postmodernity. Cambridge, MA: Blackwell Publishers, 1990. ISBN 0631162941
• Heilbroner, Robert L. The Nature and Logic of Capitalism, 1985.
• Landes, David S. The Unbound Prometheus: Technological Change and Industrial Development in Western Europe from 1750 to the Present. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 1969.
• Marx, Karl. Capital: A Critical Analysis of Capitalist Production, 3 vol., 1886–1909; first published in German as Das Kapital: Kritik der politischen Oekonomie, 1867–1894.
• Rand, Ayn. Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal ISBN 0451147952
• Rostow, W. W. The Stages of Economic Growth: A Non-Communist Manifesto. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1960.
• Rothbard, Murray. Man, Economy, and State: A Treatise on Economic Principles, (2 volumes.) 1962.
• Smith, Adam. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, 1776.