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CAPITALISM [25 records]

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Record 1 2024-02-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Economic Doctrines, Systems and Policies
  • Political Theories and Doctrines
  • Sociology of Ideologies
  • Social Organization
CONT

Agrarian capitalism is a mode of production in which the forms of production vary according to the internal distribution of property rights and market involvement.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Doctrines, systèmes et politiques économiques
  • Théories et doctrines politiques
  • Sociologie des idéologies
  • Organisation sociale
CONT

[Il] conviendra de se demander si c'est au sein même du monde agricole que s'est développé le rapport d'exploitation salarial typique du capitalisme ou si, au contraire, c'est en aval et en amont du processus de production strictement agricole, que s'est développé le capitalisme agraire.

Spanish

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Record 2 2023-11-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Economic Doctrines, Systems and Policies
  • Information Processing (Informatics)
CONT

Surveillance capitalism describes a market-driven process where the commodity for sale is your personal data, and the capture and production of this data relies on mass surveillance of the internet.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Doctrines, systèmes et politiques économiques
  • Traitement de l'information (Informatique)
DEF

[...] système économique centré sur la marchandisation des données personnelles dans le but principal de faire du profit.

Spanish

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Record 3 2019-01-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Economic History
  • Economic Doctrines, Systems and Policies
OBS

In the regime of trustified capitalism, large firms with unthreatened market positions dominate the economy and undertake their own [research and development] to reduce cost and improve productivity or product quality.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Histoire de l'économique
  • Doctrines, systèmes et politiques économiques

Spanish

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Record 4 2018-07-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • Economic History
  • Economic and Industrial Sociology
CONT

Black capitalism is a movement among African Americans to build wealth through the ownership and development of businesses.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Histoire de l'économique
  • Sociologie économique et industrielle
CONT

Si, à la fin du XIXe siècle, il défendait un capitalisme noir, il se tourne vers les doctrines socialistes à partir 1905.

Spanish

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Record 5 2016-02-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Economic Doctrines, Systems and Policies
CONT

... gradually feudal and preindustrial conditions were replaced by greater emphasis on what is loosely called "free private enterprise," or "competitive capitalism."

French

Domaine(s)
  • Doctrines, systèmes et politiques économiques

Spanish

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Record 6 2014-12-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Economic Doctrines, Systems and Policies
DEF

A term used to indicate a free market, whereby the investment of capital is used to produce wealth for the owner/s of the entity.

OBS

[In a capitalist system,] property including capital assets are owned and controlled to a large extent by private persons.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Doctrines, systèmes et politiques économiques
DEF

Régime économique dans lequel les moyens de production, propriété privée d'individus, de familles ou des groupes, sont mis en œuvre par ces propriétaires ou leurs mandataires, les profits de l'exploitation faisant l'objet d'une appropriation privée.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Doctrinas, políticas y sistemas económicos
DEF

Teoría y un sistema económico basados en los principios de "Laisser-Faire" de la libre empresa. El capitalismo exige la propiedad privada de los bienes y de los medios de producción, un sistema competidor de incentivos y de utilidades, iniciativa individual y ausencia de restricciones gubernamentales en la propiedad, la producción y el comercio, así como una economía de mercado que suministra orden al sistema, a consecuencia de la reacción recíproca de la oferta y demanda.

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Record 7 2011-01-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Neology and Linguistic Borrowing
DEF

A form of capitalism that is characterized by or suggesting a predominance of intellect, brainpower. A form of capitalism whereby wealth is controlled by those who own ideas and knowledge and not natural resources.

CONT

First, entrepreneurial capitalism yielded to managerial capitalism, which now is giving way to something ... (called) 'intellectual capitalism.' ... Instead of dumbing-down production, business is evolving a high-tech version of preindustrial craftsmanship. This time the artisans are using their heads, not their hands.

OBS

This term is an example of composition. It is made up of the words, capitalism (noun, an economic system in which investment in and ownership of the means of production, distribution, and exchange of wealth is made and maintained chiefly by private individuals or corporations, esp. as contrasted to cooperatively or state-owned means of wealth) and intellectual (adjective, characterized by or suggesting a predominance of intellect).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Néologie et emprunts

Spanish

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Record 8 2006-02-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Economic Doctrines, Systems and Policies
CONT

Finance capitalism is the pursuit of profit from the purchase and sale of (investment in) currencies and financial products such as bonds, shares of corporate equity, or futures and other derivatives.

CONT

Finance capitalism is a term from Marxian political economics for the pursuit of profit from the purchase and sale of, or investment in, currencies and financial products such as bonds, stocks, futures and other derivatives.

CONT

Communities of finance capitalism developed in Montréal and Toronto.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Doctrines, systèmes et politiques économiques
CONT

Le capitalisme est dit [...] financier quand les capitaux sont prêtés contre le versement d'un intérêt par les emprunteurs, ou quand ils servent à acheter des titres représentant une part de la propriété d'une entreprise (des actions), afin de réaliser une plus-value boursière ou de toucher des dividendes.

CONT

[Le capitalisme financier], né en Angleterre dès après la révolution industrielle puis répandu en Europe du Sud-Ouest et en Amérique du Nord, mise sur l'a-priori du point de vue financier (le fameux « how to make money »).

CONT

Le capitalisme financier, représenté par les banques, la Bourse, les fonds de retraite, les compagnies d'assurances, etc., a pour but de rassembler les capitaux nécessaires au financement de la croissance économique et d'en favoriser la circulation.

CONT

Outre le développement des milieux du capitalisme financier à Montréal et à Toronto, des groupes de financiers s'intéressant aux régions se sont organisés à Halifax, au Québec et dans l'Ouest.

Spanish

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Record 9 2005-01-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Environmental Economics
CONT

Natural capitalism is a new business model that reconciles environmental and economic interests, enabling companies and communities to do well and do good at the same time.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Économie environnementale
DEF

[...] modèle économique qui tente de diminuer notre impact sur l'environnement, de restaurer les écosystèmes et d'augmenter la productivité des ressources naturelles que nous utilisons.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Economía del medio ambiente
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Record 10 2003-07-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Economic Doctrines, Systems and Policies
DEF

An economic system based on a free market operated in conjunction with state provision for those ... unable to sell their labour.

OBS

The term is a 1950s translations of German "soziale Marktwirtschaft" created by A. Muller-Armack in 1948. Compare "state capitalism".

Key term(s)
  • state capitalism

French

Domaine(s)
  • Doctrines, systèmes et politiques économiques
OBS

Voir «économie de marché», «capitalisme d'état», «socialisme réformiste» et «capitalisme populaire» dans le Petit Robert.

Spanish

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Record 11 2002-10-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Economic Doctrines, Systems and Policies
CONT

The Stock Exchange has a goal of "people's capitalism", in which the masses have appreciable ownership of society's capital.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Doctrines, systèmes et politiques économiques

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Doctrinas, políticas y sistemas económicos
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Record 12 2002-03-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Stock Exchange
CONT

Cowboy capitalism occurs when promoters take over a company's stocks, inflate its value, clean out its profits and move on.

OBS

Term taken from Moneywise of June 1988.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Bourse

Spanish

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Record 13 2002-01-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Economic Doctrines, Systems and Policies
  • Labour and Employment
DEF

Capitalism characterized by a concern for the welfare of various social groupings (as workers) expressed usually through social-security programs, collective-bargaining agreements, state industrial codes, and other guarantees against insecurity.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Doctrines, systèmes et politiques économiques
  • Travail et emploi

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Doctrinas, políticas y sistemas económicos
  • Trabajo y empleo
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Record 14 2000-08-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Economic Doctrines, Systems and Policies
CONT

The Japanese business model differs from that of the west in that there is less emphasis on competition between firms ... This model can lend itself to rapid mobilization of capital and the development of world class industry in the targeted sectors. However, the model can also result in an over-reliance on debt, an inefficient allocation of resources and crony capitalism -- a relation between business and government that emphasises who you know rather than what you can do.

CONT

The first [document] "Why Cronyism Is Bad for Economic Growth", demonstrates that the state-owned entreprises and cronyism have a similar impact on an economy and shows how "the role of domestic credit expansion in an environment of cronyism can play much the same role as a fiscal deficit in countries where state-owned enterprises predominate".

French

Domaine(s)
  • Doctrines, systèmes et politiques économiques
CONT

Le premier [document], «Why Cronyism Is Bad for Economic Growth» démontre que les entreprises publiques et le copinage ont le même effet sur l'économie, et explique comment l'expansion du crédit intérieur dans un capitalisme de copinage peut jouer grosso modo le même rôle qu'un déficit budgétaire dans les pays où les entreprises publiques prédominent.

Spanish

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Record 15 1999-12-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Investment
DEF

Financial investment by business "angels".

CONT

The Federal Government is now making its first effort to organize the informal, multi-billion dollar world of angel investing, via the Internet (Corporate Report Wisconsin, Dec. 1997, p. 29).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Investissements et placements
OBS

Voir «angel investor».

Spanish

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Record 16 1996-06-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • Foreign Trade

French

Domaine(s)
  • Commerce extérieur

Spanish

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Record 17 1995-09-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Titles of Documents and Works
OBS

by Robert Reich

French

Domaine(s)
  • Titres de documents et d'œuvres

Spanish

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Record 18 1993-01-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Financial and Budgetary Management

French

Domaine(s)
  • Gestion budgétaire et financière

Spanish

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Record 19 1988-06-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • National and International Economics
  • Financial Institutions

French

Domaine(s)
  • Économie nationale et internationale
  • Institutions financières
CONT

Des pays aux perspectives et au développement aussi différents que la France et le Chili, le Canada et l'Union Soviétique, se rallient aux principes du marché libre. Et un nouveau cycle de capitalisme du marché - universel plutôt que national - se met en place.

Spanish

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Record 20 1981-02-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • National and International Economics

French

Domaine(s)
  • Économie nationale et internationale

Spanish

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Record 21 1981-02-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Pricing Theory

French

Domaine(s)
  • Théorie des prix

Spanish

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Record 22 1981-01-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Economic Doctrines, Systems and Policies
OBS

(...) alternative economic systems: pure capitalism, the mixed economy, fascism, socialism, and communism.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Doctrines, systèmes et politiques économiques

Spanish

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Record 23 1980-09-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Economic Doctrines, Systems and Policies
OBS

If Marxians wait for capitalism to collapse in a final crisis, they wait in vain. We have eaten of the Fruit of the Tree of Knowledge and, for better or worse, there is no returning to laissez-faire capitalism.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Doctrines, systèmes et politiques économiques

Spanish

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Record 24 1980-08-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • Economic Doctrines, Systems and Policies
OBS

(...) real wages, instead of falling or remaining constant in the decades since Marx's 1867 Das Kapital, turn out on statistical examination to have been rising dramatically under industrial capitalism.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Doctrines, systèmes et politiques économiques

Spanish

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Record 25 1976-06-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Economics

French

Domaine(s)
  • Économique
OBS

phase actuelle du cap. v. polee, fev-74 RA

Spanish

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