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 .

See also

• Related topics: History of Economic Thought, Emergence of early capitalism, Capitalism.org, Distributed resource allocation, Spirit of capitalism
• Related words: capitalist, crony capitalism capitalist mode of production
• Related ideologies: anti-capitalism, classical liberalism (libertarianism, culture of capitalism, minarchism, anarcho-capitalism), conservatism (political conservatism), mercantilism, protectionism, social democracy (welfare state, liberalism, political liberalism, liberal democracy), statism, state capitalism, socialism, fascism, communism, libertarian socialism, democratic capitalism, Marxism, Objectivism
• disambiguation: Capitalism (game)