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is a social and economic system offering opportunity in economic growth, an optimism countered by the opportunities for exploitation inherent in the system.

Capitalism is a mode of socio-economic organization in which a class of entrepreneurs and entrepreneurial institutions provide the capital with which businesses produce goods and services and employ workers. In return the capitalist extracts profits from the goods created. Capitalism is frequently seen as the embodiment of the market economy, and hence may result in the optimum distribution of scarce resources, with a resulting improvement for all... this optimism is countered by pointing to the opportunity for exploitation inherent in the system.Simon Blackburn ed. (1996) Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy. Lemma 'Capitalism

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