capitalism's
Free market's thing
Capitalism's is the possessive form of capitalism, the economic system based on private ownership and free markets.
It typically modifies nouns describing features, effects, or critiques of the system: capitalism's inherent contradictions, capitalism's winners and losers, capitalism's ability to generate wealth.
Commerce without state intervention
- invisible handUnintended societal benefit from self-interest
- laissez-faireNoninterference in commerce
- individualismDoctrine of personal independence
- entrepreneurshipCreating and managing ventures
meritocracy · property rights · self-interest · competition · innovation · efficiency · liberty · choice
Selfish use of others
- inequalityUnequal distribution of resources
- greedExcessive desire for wealth
- alienationState of being isolated
- commodificationTransforming into sellable goods
consumerism · wage theft · monopolies · class division · dispossession · precarity · corporatism · plutocracy
Rapid economic mechanization period
- mercantilismTrade policy favoring exports
- colonialismDomination through foreign settlement
- enclosureConfined, bordered space
- factoriesIndustrial production facilities
bourgeoisie · proletariat · gilded age · robber barons · trade routes · urbanization · mass production · Fordism
Trade gathering places
- profitsFinancial surplus after costs
- private ownershipIndividual control of assets
- accumulationCollected mass over time
- investmentDeploying capital for returns
enterprise · competition · commodities · wealth · trade · commerce · supply and demand · pricing
Means by which things function
- structuresOrganized physical constructions
- institutionsEstablished organizations or practices
- cyclesRecurring sequences of events
- crisesUrgent, unstable situations
contradictions · dynamics · tendencies · logic · imperatives · pressures · forces · relations
free market
Commerce without state intervention
- invisible handUnintended societal benefit from self-interest
- laissez-faireNoninterference in commerce
- individualismDoctrine of personal independence
entrepreneurship · meritocracy · property rights · self-interest · competition · innovation · efficiency · liberty · choice · opportunity
exploitation
Selfish use of others
- inequalityUnequal distribution of resources
- greedExcessive desire for wealth
- alienationState of being isolated
commodification · consumerism · wage theft · monopolies · class division · dispossession · precarity · corporatism · plutocracy · oligarchy
industrial revolution
Rapid economic mechanization period
- mercantilismTrade policy favoring exports
- colonialismDomination through foreign settlement
- enclosureConfined, bordered space
factories · bourgeoisie · proletariat · gilded age · robber barons · trade routes · urbanization · mass production · Fordism · globalization
markets
Trade gathering places
- profitsFinancial surplus after costs
- private ownershipIndividual control of assets
- accumulationCollected mass over time
investment · enterprise · competition · commodities · wealth · trade · commerce · supply and demand · pricing · shareholders
mechanisms
Means by which things function
- structuresOrganized physical constructions
- institutionsEstablished organizations or practices
- cyclesRecurring sequences of events
crises · contradictions · dynamics · tendencies · logic · imperatives · pressures · forces · relations · reproduction
- global capitalismInternational private ownership system
- crony capitalismEconomy favoring the connected
- late capitalismMature market-dominated era
- state capitalismGovernment-owned commercial enterprises
- late-stage capitalismAdvanced commodified economic order
- venture capitalismFunding startups for ownership stakes