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The Cold War: Capitalism

Year 10 Elective History

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Here are some books that you may find useful during your studies.  Search the Bennies catalogue Accessit for more, or browse the Non-fiction collection NFS.

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Though capitalism seems like just plain common-sense nowadays, it is a theory of human society with a distinctive history and set of assumptions.

It’s sometimes easy to think that we’ve run out of stuff to make and sell one another. Far from it: Capitalism is still very undeveloped. We’re only at its very dawn.

Britannica Online

        

capitalism,  also called free market economy, or free enterprise economy economic system, dominant in the Western world since the breakup of feudalism, in which most of the means of production are privately owned and production is guided and income distributed largely through the operation of markets.