Question related to an economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state.
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Why do few/no countries claim capitalism as their ideology?
Think about it: capitalism has brought so much prosperity to so many people.
Yet no country claims our national ideology is capitalism - none that I know of.
Americans can proudly claim they are capitalists. Well. First. Not so much. And then, it's…
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What are other samples of states/provinces/governments that are governed like private companies now?
Are there any variants of capitalism that treat states themselves like some form of corporation?
In that question, someone asks if there are states that's governed like corporation.
Notable samples are
EIC (East Indian Companies), and VOC (Dutch…
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Are there research estimates of Capitalistic terror?
In this answer there is an estimation of communist terror in different countries. And there is a huge amount of work and estimation related to this. Looks like that this work is actively sponsored by various foundations like this.
Meanwhile,…
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