capital

en-noun

capital (countable and uncountable, plural capitals)

From Middle English capital, borrowed partly from Old French capital and partly from Latin capitālis (“of the head”) (in sense “head of cattle”), from caput (“head”) (English cap) + -ālis (suffix forming adjectives). Use in trade and finance originated in Medieval economies when a common but expensive transaction involved trading heads of cattle. The noun is from the adjective.
Compare chattel and kith and kine (“all one’s possessions”), which also use “cow” to mean “property”.
Doublet of cattle and chattel.

[ˈkʰæp.ɪ.ɾɫ̩]

factor of production
factor of production

(uncountable, economics) Already-produced durable goods available for use as a factor of production, such as steam shovels (equipment) and office buildings (structures).

He does not have enough capital to start a business.

(uncountable, business, finance, insurance) Money and wealth. The means to acquire goods and services, especially in a non-barter system.


capitalism

capitalism (countable and uncountable, plural capitalisms)

/ˈkæpɪ̈tl̩ˌɪzm̩/

Borrowed from French capitalisme (“the condition of one who is rich”); equivalent to capital + -ism. Derived from Proto-Indo-European *káput (“head”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kap-. First used in English by novelist William Thackeray in 1854.

bor

The peasantry have long since disappeared, the independent shopkeeper is being destroyed, the small business-man is diminishing in numbers. But at the same time modern industry is so complicated that it cannot get along without great numbers of managers, salesmen, engineers, chemists and technicians of all kinds, drawing fairly large salaries. And these in turn call into being a professional class of doctors, lawyers, teachers, artists, etc., etc. The tendency of advanced capitalism has therefore been to enlarge the middle class and not to wipe it out as it once seemed likely to do.

1941, George Orwell, The Lion and the Unicorn, Pt. I:

After the economic paralysis during the early years of the People's Republic, and after the chaos of the Cultural Revolution, the fresh though sometimes harsh wind of capitalism is blowing across this city's 2,388 square miles (6,185 square kilometers) with a socialist face. The motto of the Chinese national government "Become wealthy together!" has created a hectic atmosphere in Shanghai.

1999, “Shanghai”, in The Book of the World, 2nd United States edition (Atlas), Macmillan, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 411, column 1:

(politics) A socio-economic system based on private ownership of resources or capital.

What this war has demonstrated is that private capitalism—that is, an economic system in which land, factories, mines and transport are owned privately and operated solely for profit—does not work. It cannot deliver the goods. This fact had been known to millions of people for years past, but nothing ever came of it, because there was no real urge from below to alter the system, and those at the top had trained themselves to be impenetrably stupid on just this point. Argument and propaganda got one nowhere. The lords of property simply sat on their bottoms and proclaimed that all was for the best. Hitler's conquest of Europe, however, was a physical debunking of capitalism. War, for all its evil, is at any rate an unanswerable test of strength, like a try-your-grip machine. Great strength returns the penny, and there is no way of faking the result.

1941, George Orwell, The Lion and the Unicorn, Pt. II:

(economics) An economic system based on private ownership of the means of production and their operation for profit.

(politics, economic liberalism) A socio-economic system based on private property rights, including the private ownership of resources or capital, with economic decisions made largely through the operation of a market unregulated by the state.

भांडवलशाही

bhāṇḍvalśāhī

(economics, economic liberalism) An economic system based on the abstraction of resources into the form of privately owned capital, with economic decisions made largely through the operation of a market unregulated by the state.

kapitalisme

socio-economic system based on the abstraction of resources

भांडवलशाही

bhāṇḍvalśāhī


laissez faire

/ˌlɛ(ˌ)seɪ ˈfɛəɹ/

Borrowed from French laissez faire (“leave it be”, literally “let do”).

In brief, all this Mammon-Gospel of Supply-and-demand, Competition, Laissez-faire, and Devil take the hindmost, begins to be one of the shabbiest Gospels ever preached on Earth; or altogether the shabbiest.

1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, chapter 9, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, book I (Proem), page 106:

(economics, politics) A policy of governmental non-interference in economic affairs.

放任

economics: a policy of governmental non-interference in economic affairs


laissez faire

en-adj

laissez faire (comparative more laissez faire, superlative most laissez faire)

more laissez faire (comparative)
most laissez faire (superlative)

/ˌlɛ(ˌ)seɪ ˈfɛəɹ/

I think the city should take a laissez faire approach to this; getting involved would only make things worse.

(economics, politics) Practicing or representing governmental noninterference, or minimal interference, especially in economic affairs; pertaining to free-market capitalism.

laissez-faire

economics, politics: practicing or representing governmental noninterference, or minimal interference

The Senator claims to be laissez faire, but he voted in favor of the subsidies.

(economics, politics) Advocating such noninterference.

The price ceiling was well below the laissez faire price that demand would have supported, so there were always shortages.

(economics) Resulting from such noninterference.


decentralization

en-noun

decentralization (countable and uncountable, plural decentralizations)

From de- + centralization or decentralize + -ation.


capitalist

From French capitaliste; equivalent to capital + -ist. Derived from Proto-Indo-European *káput (“head”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kap-.

Near-synonyms: businessman, financier, industrialist

That is all that is asked; and no capitalist in New England can make one quarter on capital in ordinary investments, on what can be made upon Chicago real estate.

1871, John Stephen Wright, Wright's Proposition to a Chicago Railway Capitalist, page 40:

“I have tried, as I hinted, to enlist the co-operation of other capitalists, but experience has taught me that any appeal is futile that does not impinge directly upon cupidity.[…]”

1913, Robert Barr, chapter 4, in Lord Stranleigh Abroad:

Every rail company worth its salt wanted to connect with London. Interestingly, it was largely that way around - provincial entrepreneurs wanting to connect with the capital, rather than London capitalists seeking to spread outwards.

2021 January 13, Christian Wolmar, “Read all about London's Cathedrals of Steam”, in RAIL, issue 922, page 62:

Someone whose wealth (capital) is invested in business ventures in order to return a profit.


free market

The very notion of 'integrated transport' has always appalled the free market instincts of the Conservatives, and still does.

2021 March 10, Christian Wolmar, “Integrated transport: A lot is said but little is being done”, in RAIL, number 926, page 50:

(economics) Any market in which trade is unregulated by government; an economic system free from government intervention.

mercat lliure

competitive market where buyers and sellers can operate without restrictions


capitalistically

en-adv

capitalistically (comparative more capitalistically, superlative most capitalistically)

more capitalistically (comparative)
most capitalistically (superlative)


capitalistic

en-adj

capitalistic (comparative more capitalistic, superlative most capitalistic)

more capitalistic (comparative)
most capitalistic (superlative)

From capital + -istic. Derived from Proto-Indo-European *káput (“head”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kap-.

This gloomy view of the capitalistic production system envisioned ceaseless warfare among the major powers.

1957, The Development of Air Doctrine in the Army Air Arm, 1917-1941:

In other words, the workers will overthrow the capitalistic class and establish a so-called dictatorship of the proletariat, which will finally become a classless society.

1990, "A" - The Journey of Self-Discovery:

Of or pertaining to capitalism or to capitalists.

կապիտալիստական

of or pertaining to capitalism or to capitalists


market economy

en-noun

market economy (plural market economies)

An economy in which goods and services are exchanged in a market, as opposed to a state-controlled economy.

اِقْتِصَاد اَلسُّوق

economy in which and services are exchanged in a free market


trickle-down

In addition, it examines the trickle-down effects of economic development as espoused by market theorists in the urban economic development literature. Policymakers in Rockford used the trickle-down logic of market theory to justify a […]

2002, James L. Conyers, Black Cultures and Race Relations, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 125:

While the trickle-down mechanism is based on market optimism (in a well-functioning economy, the poor will benefit automatically from any growth), proponents of direct and indirect policies targeting the poor are market-pessimists, in which […]

2007, Christian Schabbel, The Value Chain of Foreign Aid: Development, Poverty Reduction, and Regional Conditions, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 200:

On the surface, the Kuznets curve seems to justify laissez-faire economics and trickle-down policies.

2012 April 30, Kentaro Toyama, “The Rise and Fall and Rise (Literally) of the Most Important Curve in Economics”, in The Atlantic:

(economics) Describing the theory that financial benefits given to the wealthy will somehow be passed down to the poor.


anarcho-capitalism

From anarcho- + capitalism. Earliest extant attestation is in American author Karl Hess's essay “The Death of Politics”, originally published by Playboy, in March 1969. Even though American economist Murray Rothbard is credited with coining this word, its first possible appearance among his writings is in his 1971 essay “Know Your Rights”, published two years after Hess's essay.

Laissez-faire capitalism, or anarchocapitalism^([sic]), is simply the economic form of the libertarian ethic. Laissez-faire capitalism encompasses the notion that men should exchange goods and services, without regulation, solely on the basis of value for value. It recognizes charity and communal enterprises as voluntary versions of this same ethic. Such a system would be straight barter, except for the widely felt need for a division of labor in which men, voluntarily, accept value tokens such as cash and credit. Economically, this system is anarchy, and proudly so.

1969 March, Karl Hess, “The Death of Politics”, in Playboy:

Anarcho-capitalism is a creed new to the present age. Its closest historical links are with the “individualist anarchism” of Benjamin R. Tucker and Lysander Spooner of the late nineteenth century, and it shares with Tucker and Spooner a devotion to private property, individualism, and competition. Furthermore, and in contrast to Read and Rand, it shares with Spooner and Tucker their hostility to government officials as a criminal band of robbers and murderers.[…]

1971, Murray Rothbard, “Know Your Rights”, in WIN: Peace and Freedom through Nonviolent Action, volume 7, number 4, pages 6–10:

The second was shock therapy. Implemented briefly in the aftermath of the Soviet collapse, shock therapy aimed to construct a free market in post-communist Russia. It produced instead a species of mafia-dominated anarcho-capitalism.

1998, John Gray, False Dawn: The Delusions of Global Capitalism, New York: The New Press, →ISBN, page 133:

(politics, economics) A political and economic philosophy that advocates the elimination of the state and other coercive institutions in favour of individual self-ownership and free market.

لاسلطوية رأسمالية

philosophy that advocates the elimination of the state and a self-regulating free market


free marketeer

An advocate of a free market model of economy.


anarcho-capitalist

From anarcho- + capitalist.
From anarcho- + capitalist. Its possible earliest appearance is in the 1971 article “Know Your Rights” by Murray Rothbard, who is credited with coining it and its cognate anarcho-capitalism; though the latter's earliest extant attestion is in Karl Hess's 1969 article “The Death of Politics”.

It is safe to say that the great bulk of right-libertarians are anarcho-capitalists, particularly among the youth.

But Liberland is Mecca for libertarians' more radical strands, especially ‘anarcho-capitalists’, people who believe the state should be abolished entirely, replaced by individuals clubbing together to contract services from private companies.

2017, Jamie Bartlett, chapter 8, in Radicals, William Heinemann, →ISBN:

The Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel, a self-described anarcho-capitalist, is a major supporter of the movement – which, like space colonization, seems to attract the enthusiasm of a certain kind of fantastically rich and rightwing tech baron.

2021 February 5, Matt Shaw, “Billionaire capitalists are designing humanity's future. Don't let them”, in The Guardian:

At his final campaign event in Buenos Aires on Wednesday, the 53-year-old “anarcho-capitalist” addressed a packed 15,000-capacity stadium from a stage adorned with a banner proclaiming him “The Only Solution” to Argentina’s economic malaise.

2023 October 22, Tom Phillips, Uki Goñi, “‘Bad and dangerous’: Argentina’s Trump on track to become president”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

(politics, economics) A person who advocates anarcho-capitalism.


philanthrocapitalism

At its best, philanthrocapitalism reinforces and amplifies the time, money, skills, and gifts given every year by people who are not rich, and it informs and enhances government policies.

2009, Matthew Bishop, Michael F. Green, Bill Clinton (foreword), Philanthrocapitalism: How Giving Can Save the World, Bloomsbury Press, →ISBN, Foreword, page viii:

"Philanthrocapitalism", as it has been called, veers towards tackling symptoms of poverty and distress rather than underlying causes.

2010 August 5, Peter Wilby, “The rich want a better world? Try paying fair wages and tax”, in The Guardian:

(neologism) The philosophy of applying capitalist style objectives and criteria to directing philanthropic enterprises.


free enterprise

An economic system of business governed by the laws of supply and demand with minimal government interference, regulation, or subsidy.


supercapitalism

Coordinate term: late capitalism

Together, newly powerful shoppers and shareholders of this supercapitalism drove a decline in labor unions and a frenzy by corporations desperate to buy some market advantage in Washington.

2007 September 2, Stephen Kotkin, “Dangers of a Turbocharged Economy”, in New York Times:

(capitalism) Any especially intense and competitive form of capitalism.


hypercapitalism

Coordinate term: late capitalism

Perhaps Americans will finally choose to stop living in an economic Wild West and at last reject the boom-and-bust cycle of turbocharged hypercapitalism in favor of a more humane, livable society.

2008 March 30, “Letters”, in New York Times:

CCRU members disavowed the leftist pieties of their peers and fused cybernetics, metallurgy, bacteriology, chaos theory, science-fiction and the occult to explore, often in deliriously opaque language, what it meant to be alive in an age of hypercapitalism.

2015 November 16, Sukhdev Sandhu, “How dub master Kode9 became the hero of zero”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

Under hypercapitalism, the most beautiful things are the surest signs of impending crisis. The nap seems like a luxury, or even a sign of weakness, a regression into infantlike torpor.

2018 December 1, Stephen Marche, “The $25 Nap Is Worth It”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

The collapse of the Soviet Union and Communism at the beginning of the 1990s was very good news, but it had the unfortunate effect of making almost any left critique of America’s new hypercapitalism seem not just quixotic but also kind of corny and quaint.

2020 August 7, Kurt Andersen, “College-Educated Professionals Are Capitalism’s Useful Idiots”, in The Atlantic:

However, the politics are much different. Silicon Valley’s libertarian, technocratic ideals – themselves a curious mutation of the California counterculture – could extend the darker aspects of hyper-capitalism.

(capitalism) Extreme capitalism at the expense of traditional values.


hypercapitalist

en-adj

hypercapitalist (comparative more hypercapitalist, superlative most hypercapitalist)

more hypercapitalist (comparative)
most hypercapitalist (superlative)

What the revisionists have done, Milton Friedman included, is provide ideological cover for a moribund political party. Mr. Friedman’s own place in the history books will rest upon how the chroniclers portray his role in the hypercapitalist free fall of the early 21st century.

2009 April 9, “The New Deal Revisionists: Will They Ever Learn?”, in New York Times:

[Sam] Altman is rapidly building out an economy within Silicon Valley that seems intended to essentially supplant Silicon Valley—a guild of hyper-capitalist entrepreneurs who will help one another fix the broken world.

2016 October 3, Tad Friend, “Sam Altman’s Manifest Destiny”, in The New Yorker:

Exhibiting or pertaining to hypercapitalism.


crapitalism

All you have to do is look around and see that the solution is here; there are better ways to handle the resources of the globe, there are better ways to do things than "crapitalism."

1983, Walli F. Leff, Marilyn G. Haft, Time Without Work: People Who Are Not Working Tell Their Stories, How They Feel, What They Do, How They Survive, South End Press, →ISBN, page 346:

Whereas the barren, soulless toxic-waste dumps of contemporary crapitalism propelled him into the grasp of fame and fortune (not to mention those free big-legged piggyback rides), spreading his anti-wholesome influence far and wide.

2005 May 3, Howard Hampton, “Naked Lunchbox”, in Village Voice:

Rather, the mercenary aspect of crapitalism is at fault, as it allows the almighty dollar to set the programming agenda.

2007 April 11, Kam Williams, “Imus Wouldn’t Insult Jews”, in Black Star News:

(derogatory) Capitalism viewed as an inherently flawed or unjust system.


crapitalist

(derogatory) A corrupt or inauthentic capitalist; a proponent of crapitalism.


creative destruction

Calque of German schöpferische Zerstörung, popularized by economist Joseph Schumpeter.

cal

Like all major industrial advances, the telecomputer is an instrument of creative destruction. All the likely victims are mobilizing to prevent their own destruction. It is unsure how soon the creators will win.

1990, George F. Gilder, Life After Television, page 37:

There may be additional explanations for the acceleration of structural economic change. What counts, however, is the result: Schumpeter’s ‘creative destruction’ – the displacement of old skills, trades and entire industries with their dependent localities, by more efficient new skills, trades and entire industries – is now apt to span years, often very few years, rather than generations.

1994 April 7, Edward Luttwak, “Why Fascism is the Wave of the Future”, in London Review of Books, volume 16, number 07, →ISSN:

If creative destruction allows fast economic growth without generating serious inflation, then it might make sense, for example, to put high values on the shares of companies that will do well in such an unusual environment.

2000 June 10, Sharon Reier, “Half a Century Later, Economist's 'Creative Destruction' Theory Is Apt for the Internet Age”, in The International Herald Tribune, →ISSN:

Creative destruction, the term coined by economist Joseph Schumpeter to describe the workings of innovation and technology, justly became a buzzword of the New Economy. Many new companies have been created; almost as many will be destroyed.

2001 June 20, Daniel Gross, “Creative Destruction and the Web”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

New-media thinkers, with their appetite for disintermediation and creative destruction, implicitly endorse and advance this transformation.

2014, Astra Taylor, chapter 2, in The People's Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age, Henry Holt and Company, →ISBN:

More than the much-remarked squeeze on working-class jobs in areas of the economy such as manufacturing, [Edward] Luttwak saw an accelerated “creative destruction” affecting clerical jobs in white-collar data-heavy industries such as banking that were being disrupted by capital's “Schumpeteresque” technology-assisted modernisation as they were digitised.

2020, Marcus Gilroy-Ware, After the Fact?, Repeater, →ISBN:

(economics, capitalism) The process of industrial mutation that continually revolutionizes the economic structure from within.


turbocapitalism

From turbo- + capitalism, popularized by Edward Luttwak in Turbo-Capitalism (1998).

Coordinate term: hypercapitalism

It was not until the end of the 1970s that today's roaring turbo-capitalism was unleashed by the abolition of anti-competition laws and regulations left over from the 1930s, by the technological innovations thus allowed, by the privatization of whatever could be privatized, and by the removal of most important barriers.

1999, Edward Luttwak, Turbo-Capitalism: Winners and Losers in the Global Economy, New York: Harper Collins, →ISBN, page 1:

Instead, he [Barack Obama] and [Gordon] Brown stand together, supposedly the representatives of Anglo-American turbocapitalism, struggling to push the statist French and Germans—and this is the bit that was in nobody's script—leftward.

2009 March 31, Jonathan Freedland, “Where is the new JFK we expected? He's stuck in a rut with Gordon Brown”, in The Guardian:

David Cameron has marched onto territory staked out by Ed Miliband by promising that there would be no return to the "turbo-capitalism" of recent decades.

2012 January 19, Nicholas Watt, “David Cameron pledges era of ‘popular capitalism’”, in The Guardian:

As in China, nominally communist Vietnam has embraced brakes-off turbocapitalism, and the old dream of society has been picked clean.

2017 September 27, Jason Farago, “Southeast Asia Stakes Its Claim in the Art World”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

(capitalism) An accelerated form of capitalism that lacks measures to keep the system in equilibrium and prevent social unrest.


ancap

en-adj

ancap (comparative more ancap, superlative most ancap)

more ancap (comparative)
most ancap (superlative)

Unlike its socialist forerunner, this Randian vision for smashing the state requires no interdependence, mutual aid, or renunciation of private wealth; in fact, one common ancap goal is to amass enough cash to keep the government off your back.

2022 July 8, Judy Berman, “The Anarchists Is a Messy, Gripping Anarcho-Capitalist Saga”, in Time:

(politics, economics, chiefly Internet slang) Clipping of anarcho-capitalist.


ancap

en-noun

ancap (countable and uncountable, plural ancaps)

(politics, economics, chiefly Internet slang, countable) Clipping of anarcho-capitalist.

(politics, economics, chiefly Internet slang, uncountable) Clipping of anarcho-capitalism.


state capitalism

state capitalism (countable and uncountable, plural state capitalisms)

The form of capitalism where for-profit commercial activities are undertaken by the state; either via corporatized government agencies, or via ownership or control of nominally private organizations.


boomerism

Be warned against the tendency to build your young lives around anti-boomerism. In the end, it will be you that gets hurt, not the boomers.

1995, Mike Regele, Mark Schulz, Death of the Church, →ISBN, page 227:

Examples include: Bob Hope providing a queered alternative to World War II mythologies of maleness (something already addressed by Steven Cohan); Ierry Lewis's manic “femininity” as a reaction to 1950 sexual conservatism (as explored by Frank Krutnik); John Belushi embracing the runaway consumption of 1970 maleness; Bill Murray displaying the evolving cynicism of disillusioned baby boomers; Adam Sandler depicting a childish rage as a rejection of boomerism; and Ferrell often performing lampoons of previous generations of machismo.

2013, Scott Balcerzak, Buffoon Men: Classic Hollywood Comedians and Queered Masculinity, →ISBN:

The moment of rupture between the “hippie” and “yuppie” manifestations of baby boomerism is typically dated to the first presidential term of Ronald Reagan—or, even more specifically, to the moment when Reagan (a bastion of the older “greatest generation”) was shot by John Hinckley (a baby boomer) (Casale and Lerman 2002, 128).

2014, Brian Cogan, Thom Gencarelli, Baby Boomers and Popular Culture, →ISBN:

The behaviours and attitudes of baby boomers.


crony capitalism

crony capitalism (usually uncountable, plural crony capitalisms)

While many things can be blamed for the rampant crony capitalism in India (e.g., British imperialism, the License Raj, etc.), we are particularly interested in understanding what role cultural values play in fostering crony capitalism.

2017, Naresh Khatri, Abhoy Ojha, Crony Capitalism in India: Establishing Robust Counteractive Institutional Frameworks, Springer, →ISBN, page 118:

(politics, idiomatic) A form of capitalism in which success in business depends on corrupt close relationships with government officials, often implying favouritism.


platform capitalism

Some prominent critics even speak of “platform capitalism” – a broader transformation of how goods and services are produced, shared and delivered.

2015 June 6, Evgeny Morozov, “Where Uber and Amazon rule: welcome to the world of the platform”, in The Guardian:

At the heart of platform capitalism is a drive to extract more data in order to survive.

2017 August 30, Nick Srnicek, “We need to nationalise Google, Facebook and Amazon. Here’s why”, in The Guardian:

The last 20 years has seen a decline in socialising[…] We are living in the era of platform capitalism, where you can do just about anything without leaving your home, and are in fact encouraged to do so.

2020 October 8, James Greig, “The pain of cinema closures isn’t just economic”, in The Guardian:

(business, neologism) A way of doing business that involves recruiting large numbers of people who work for themselves using the company's platform, for example by facilitating ridesharing.


late capitalism

late capitalism (countable and uncountable, plural late capitalisms)

Calque of German Spätkapitalismus, attributed to German economist Werner Sombart and later popularized by Marxist economist Ernest Mandel.

The genius of late capitalism is the development of strategies for managing and profiting by its own excess.

1993, Linda Singer, Judith Butler, Maureen MacGrogan, Erotic Welfare: Sexual Theory and Politics in the Age of Epidemic, →ISBN:

The "schizoanalysis" of Deleuze and Guattari further brings the film into conversation with Gregory Bateson's analysis of schizophrenia and the environment in Steps to an Ecology of Mind, wrapping up with an examination of the film as a product of late capitalism.

2008, Laura Elaine Hudson, The Apocalyptic Animal of Late Capitalism, →ISBN, page 13:

If, then, something like attention deficit hyperactivity disorder is a pathology, it is a pathology of late capitalism – a consequence of being wired into the entertainment-control circuits of hypermediated consumer culture.

2009, Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?, Kindle edition, Zero Books, →ISBN, page 25:

An ideology of technological rationalism in the globalization of late capitalism appears to be a specific example of reification; it has the function of the mystifying concealment of social conflict, contradiction, and war.

2014, Paul S. Chung, Church and Ethical Responsibility in the Midst of World Economy, →ISBN, page xvii:

Those cerebral outlets helped to fuel renewed interest in Marx and critical theory, as well as late capitalism. David Graeber, a leading figure in Occupy and the coiner of the phrase “We are the 99 percent,” for instance, wrote a long essay for The Baffler that touched on Jameson, Mandel, corporate profitability, flying cars, and, of course, late capitalism.

2017 May 1, Annie Lowrey, “Why the Phrase 'Late Capitalism' Is Suddenly Everywhere”, in The Atlantic:

The most recent or current form of capitalism, especially as characterized by monopoly, globalization, exploitation, and excess.


welfare capitalism

A form of capitalism that includes social welfare policies.


homocapitalist

en-adj

homocapitalist (comparative more homocapitalist, superlative most homocapitalist)

more homocapitalist (comparative)
most homocapitalist (superlative)


homocapitalism

A blend of homosexual + capitalism or an affixation of homo- + capitalism.

Capitalist appropriation and assimilation of sexual diversity, especially pertaining to the gay, cisgender, western, white, and upper middle class men.

gaipitalisme

capitalist appropriation and assimilation of sexual diversity


free marketeering

1990, “The 1990 Inkatha Declaration” in Mangosuthu Buthelezi, South Africa: My Vision of the Future, New York: St. Martin’s Press, p. 141,
There shall be consultative mechanisms set up in which organised agriculture, mining, commerce, banking and industry participates to advise the Government on the best ways to avoid the dangers of free marketeering and exploitation on the one hand and the dangers of State control that curbs productivity on the other hand.

[…] what the British and American leaders will be attempting at the G-20 conference […] will be to begin building a new global financial system that curbs the rampant and often conscienceless free-marketeering of the past 20 years with a new sense of accountability and restraint […]

2009 March 28, John F. Burns, Landon Thomas Jr., “Anglo-American Capitalism on Trial”, in The New York Times:

Forbes was once the business magazine of the high-trouser country-club set, a rock of free marketeering and bible of mid-size company executives, worth several billion dollars.

2013 November 18, Michael Wolff, “Forbes is latest old media for sale—with help from the New York Times”, in The Guardian:

Belief in a free market model of economy; the exploitation of a market in which trade is subject to little or no regulation by government.


neoclassical liberalism

Jardine says the neoclassical liberalism of the postindustrial economy contained two major postulates: a return to laissez-faire economics and a revival of Protestant morality to counteract the growing moral permissiveness.

2013, Arthur W. Hunt with Anthony Selvaggio, chapter 5, in Surviving Technopolis: Essays on Finding Balance in Our New Man-Made Environments, Wipf and Stock Publishers, →ISBN, page 68:

(capitalism) Capitalist ideology which stresses the importance of deregulation and private ownership over the means of production.

(capitalism) Capitalist ideology that focuses on the compatibility of support for civil liberties and free markets on the one hand and a concern for social justice or the worst-off’s well-being on the other.


ecocapitalism

For some, ecocapitalism is inherently a contradiction in terms. […] However, for free market enthusiasts, capitalism would remain largely unchanged in ecocapitalism.

2011, “Ecocapitalism”, in Dustin Mulvaney, editor, Green Politics: An A-to-Z Guide, SAGE, →ISBN, page 111:

He’s recently been hanging out with renowned investor Warren Buffet’s son, Howard, on a combine harvester in Iowa. (“A great guy. He really gets soil!”) This won’t do much to calm the greens who accuse him of a brand of eco-capitalism.

2014 August 20, Lucy Siegle, “Patrick Holden: 'People’s image of farming is a complete fantasy'”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

(politics, ecology) The philosophy that market-based methods can solve environmental and ecological problems, through government policy.


Ancapistan

In our Ancapistan estates, weve found that these limitations keep sims healthy and enjoyable for the most part, however we do recommend an upper limit of about 50-60 chickens per sim ONLY if these are the only objects in the sim.

2013, Rocci Luppicini, Moral, Ethical, and Social Dilemmas in the Age of Technology: Theories and Practice: Theories and Practice, IGI Global, →ISBN, page 156:

I'm joking of course, every aspect of society will be represented in Ancapistan and they are all necessary, so whatever industry you are in and whatever skills you have, build them. Most of what I am going to say on the following pages ...

2017, D.K.N. Nielson, The Road To ANCAPISTAN: And Its Cost, Upstate Publishing, →ISBN:

Revitalizing the militia system and then supplementing those militias with market security and justice services at the local level is conceivably more expedient than trying to carve Anarchotopia or Ancapistan out of land already claimed ...

2021, Ken Yamarashi, Money, Militia, and the Market: Three Elements to Secure Liberty, Everyday Samurai:

(humorous, chiefly Internet slang) A hypothetical society which operates under anarcho-capitalism.


stakeholder capitalism

Emmanuel Faber will enter history as one of the leading executives promoting stakeholder capitalism and centering core business units around ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) objectives. Yet his footprint and departure reveal a pervasive rift between staunch supporters of sustainable capitalism and hard-rugged corporate activists.

2021 March 20, Frank Van Gansbeke, “Sustainability And The Downfall Of Danone CEO Faber (1/2)”, in Forbes:


late capitalist

late capitalist (comparative more late capitalist, superlative most late capitalist)

more late capitalist (comparative)
most late capitalist (superlative)

Indeed, this peculiar juxtaposition of a discourse about needs with discourses about rights and interests is one of the distinctive marks of late capitalist political culture. (Fraser 1989: 162)

1996, Barbara Sullivan, Gillian Whitehouse, editors, Gender, Politics, and Citizenship in the 1990s, University of New South Wales Press, page 64:

Nora’s right: The digital afterlife Nathan is in isn’t perfect, but it is perfectly attuned to the show’s earthly world, a 2033 late-late-capitalist America where corporations have found a way to monetize heaven itself.

2020 May 7, Sophie Gilbert, “'Upload' Satirizes a Capitalist Heaven”, in The Atlantic:


faux frais

Unadapted borrowing from French faux frais.

ubor

(Marxism, capitalism) The faux frais of production.