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CAPITALISM is often thought of as an economic system in which private actors own and control property in accord with their interests, and de-mand and supply freely set prices in markets in a way that can serve the best interests of society. The essential feature of capitalism is the motive to make a profit.
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At its root, capitalism is an economic system based on three things: wage labour (working for a wage), private ownership of the means of production (things like factories, machinery, farms, and offices), and production for exchange and profit.
In this book, you find the most important economic theories, hypotheses, and discoveries without a zillion obscure details, outdated examples, or complicated mathematical “proofs.”
On every continent, capitalism is replacing socialism as the economic model for nations pursuing peace, freedom, and pros-perity. Prominent liberal writers, such as Lester Thurow, have admitted that “socialism is dead.”5 Repeated studies have shown that the civil rights records and prosperity of nations are closely
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Economics for Dummies What is economics? Why do we have money? What determines the cost of the things we buy? Economics is the study of our market system; it's the study of how people make choices about what they buy, what they produce, and how our market system works. This guidebook should
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Capitalism is often thought of as an economic system in which private actors own and control property in accord with their interests, and demand and supply freely set prices in markets in a way that can serve the best interests of society.
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At its root, capitalism is an economic system based on three things: wage labor (working for a wage), private ownership of the means of production (things like factories, machinery, farms, and offices), and production for exchange and profit (you pay for what you get).