All 7 Uses of
capitalism
in
The Sunlight Dialogues
- "This is called Capitalism," he said.†
Chpt 1 *capitalism = an economic system based on voluntary exchange in a competitive environment with private ownership of property and businesses
- You'd see them in the cafeteria primping and preening and puk-puk-padokking, speech-making at each other, some of them, the rest of them nodding, very solemn, as if it were all oh so interesting, talking about books nobody past the age of twelve would read all the way through except to punish himself, yammering about Communism and Capitalism and Christianity and the Good Lay, and back in the dorm all the baby professors would do imitations, learning the gestures and the Right Quotations, prattling about Tillich and Bishop Pike and Mr. Fromm, and relaxing their minds in the great American way with talk about baseball and football and cunts, and the brave stupid ones would talk about defending†
Chpt 4
- Capitalist liquor sellers.†
Chpt 5capitalist = one who believes in an economic system based on voluntary exchange in a competitive environment with private ownership of property and businesses
- You will say it's against man's grain, because, like any honest Jew, you are a capitalist: man's pride, confidence, is a function of his knowledge that this and this he possesses.†
Chpt 7
- It was the fault of America, of Capitalism, of White Anglo-Saxon Protestantism.†
Chpt 10capitalism = an economic system based on voluntary exchange in a competitive environment with private ownership of property and businesses
- And there, my capitalist friend, is where the Blacks come in.†
Chpt 17capitalist = one who believes in an economic system based on voluntary exchange in a competitive environment with private ownership of property and businesses
- The capitalistic basis of the great values of Western culture will preclude solution of the world's problems.†
Chpt 21capitalistic = related to an economic system based on voluntary exchange in a competitive environment with private ownership of property and businesses
Definition:
an economic system based on voluntary exchange in a competitive environment with private ownership of property and businesses
(with the belief that voluntary exchanges harness inborn self-interest in millions of decisions that benefit society)
(with the belief that voluntary exchanges harness inborn self-interest in millions of decisions that benefit society)
Most proponents of capitalism advocate that government intervene to handle problems "pure" capitalism does not handle well such as monopoly, shared costs and benefits (such as pollution or national defense), provision of a safety-net for those who are unlucky, ...