A theory of capitalism describes the essential features of capitalism and how it functions. The history of various such theories is the subject of this...

sell the same or similar products to the same buyers. Adherents of the capitalist theory believe that competition leads to innovation and more affordable...

variety of attitudes and ideas that oppose capitalism. In this sense, anti-capitalists are those who wish to replace capitalism with another type of economic...

classical Marxist and social evolutionary theories, post-capitalist societies may come about as a result of spontaneous evolution as capitalism becomes...

of ever-increasing prosperity. This underpinned the move towards a capitalist economic system in the late 18th century and the subsequent demise of the...

byproduct of capitalism; and whether or not it is the most beneficial way to organize human societies. According to some historians, the modern capitalist system...

the neo-Trotskyist theory of the USSR as state capitalist in What Was The USSR? "Modern History Sourcebook: The Common Program of The Chinese People's...

The history of advertising can be traced to ancient civilizations. It became a major force in capitalist economies in the mid-19th century, based primarily...

provide an orthodox Marxist explanation of the postwar epoch in terms of Marx's theory of the capitalist mode of production. Mandel suggested that important...

Capitalist propaganda is promotion of capitalism, often via mass media, education, or other institutions, primarily by the ruling private and political...

Different normative theories exist on the necessary and appropriate function of the state in a capitalist economy, with proponents of laissez-faire favoring...

operated for a profit, structured on the process of capital accumulation. In general, in capitalist systems investment, distribution, income and prices...

which is only a means of enlarging people's choices. Human Development has roots in ancient philosophy and early economic theory. Aristotle noted that...

if the laborers and capitalists themselves are unaware of the clash of interests. Marxian class theory has been open to a range of alternate positions...

Crisis theory, concerning the causes and consequences of the tendency for the rate of profit to fall in a capitalist system, is associated with Marxian...

Karl Marx's theory of alienation describes the estrangement (German: Entfremdung) of people from aspects of their human nature (Gattungswesen, 'species-essence')...

accounting Culture of capitalism Dual-sector model History of capitalist theory Internal contradictions of capital accumulation Investment-specific technological...

capitalist laws of uneven development in 1930. According to biographer Ian Thatcher, this theory would be later generalised to "the entire history of...

The term "capitalist realism" has been used, particularly in Germany, to describe commodity-based art, from Pop Art in the 1950s and 1960s to the commodity...

two into a collective whole designed to overthrow the developing capitalist order of the 19th century. Vladimir Lenin stated that—in contrast with Marxism—liberal...

management of complex systems according to a set of rules and trends. In systems theory, these types of rules exist in various fields of biology and...

Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? is a 2009 book by British philosopher Mark Fisher. It explores Fisher's concept of "capitalist realism",...

Littlejohn, Stephen W., ed. (2009). "Advertising Theories". Encyclopedia of Communication Theory. Vol. 1. SAGE. p. 19. ISBN 978-1-4129-5937-7. Archived...

aware of the actions of their competition. According to game theory, the decisions of one firm influence, and are influenced by, the decisions of other...

This is a list of countries of the world by wealth per adult or household, from sources such as UBS's annual Global Wealth Databook and the OECD's Better...

for capitalist production." Articles Carsel, Wilfred (1940). "The Slaveholders' Indictment of Northern Wage Slavery". Journal of Southern History. 6 (4):...

Spooner and Benjamin Tucker, while rejecting the labor theory of value. Rothbard's anarcho-capitalist society would operate under a mutually agreed-upon "legal...

through its division of labor based on capitalist enterprises. World-Systems Theory can be useful in understanding world history and the core countries'...

attainment of a standard of living equivalent to that of industrialized countries. Economic development can also be considered as a static theory that documents...

19th century built on these views of wealth that we now call classical economics. Marxian economics (see labor theory of value) distinguishes in the Grundrisse...