capitalist economy

Examples

• All

• Chile has a capitalist economy, even though it is an authoritarian state.

  Academic text (1991)

• Second, civil society was engendered by the development of the capitalist economy.

  Academic text (1992)

• You have no idea how the capitalist economy runs, what makes it run, and why.

  Blog text (23)

• I mean, in a capitalist economy, you do need markets and you do need traders.

• Scholars pointed to these values as the foundations of the developing capitalist economy.

  Academic text (2007)

• Old norms prevented the elite from understanding the logic of a capitalist economy.

  Academic text (2000)

• The guarantee of a capitalist economy is not a guarantee against cartelization and monopolization.

  Academic text (1990)

• The centrality of advanced industrial capitalist economies to the presently developing global economy is indisputable.

  Academic text (1999)

• Somehow, we have managed to persuade ourselves that the capitalist economy must be fueled only by profit maximization.

  Academic text (1998)

• In many different ways, Otavalo's agricultural peasant communities have been trapped and exploited by the growing capitalist economy.

  Academic text (1997)

Synonyms

C

capitalism

vscapitalist economy

292 3.8

A system where people or companies own businesses and property to make money

is the same idea but expressed as an adjective plus noun phrase

M

market economy

vscapitalist economy

• Specialized

93 3.0

A system where people and businesses buy and sell goods and prices are set by supply and demand

focuses instead on private ownership and operation for profit as core feature

F

free enterprise

vscapitalist economy

30 3.8

A system where private businesses compete and the market sets prices with little government control

is wider, adding the general profit motive and private ownership focus

P

private enterprise

vscapitalist economy

14 3.9

Businesses owned and run by people or companies, not the government

is broader, covering all privately owned production means not only businesses

Antonyms

S

socialist economy

1 5.1

A system where the state or community owns major businesses and resources instead of private owners

C

communist economy

1 6.4

A system where the government controls what is made, how goods are shared, and their prices

How Capitalist

laissez-faire economy

• Specialized

7.2

capitalist economy

4 4.2

market economy

• Specialized

93 3.0

mixed economy

• Specialized

2 4.1

state capitalism

• Specialized

2 6.8

managed economy

• Specialized

1 7.0

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology