Capitalistic
[,kæpɪtə'lɪstɪk] or [,kæpətl,ɪstɪk]
Examples
- An industrial revolution analogous to that in manufacture during the nineteenth century is distinctly probable, and capitalistic agriculture may soon cease to be a contradiction in terms. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- The first great capitalistic system developed and fell into chaos through its own inherent rottenness. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Thus it is customary to say that Adam Smith dates the change from the old mercantilist economy to the capitalistic economics of the nineteenth century. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
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