Citations:capitalism

English citations of capitalism

• 1854, Arthur Pendennis [pseudonym; William Makepeace Thackeray], The Newcomes: Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family, volumes (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], →OCLC, page 75:

  The Prince de Moncontour took his place with great gravity at the Paris board, whither Barnes made frequent flying visits. The sense of capitalism sobered and dignified Paul de Florac: at the age of five-and-forty he was actually giving up being a young man, and was not ill-pleased at having to enlarge his waistcoats, and to show a little gray in his mustache.

• 1969 July 21, Harry Schwartz, “Capitalist Moon or Socialist Moon?”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN:

  The stereotype has been that this was a competition between American capitalism and Soviet socialism. But the triumphant United States moon program was as socialistic in its central direction and financing as its rival soviet effort.

• 1996, “The Beautiful People”, in Antichrist Superstar, performed by Marilyn Manson:

  Capitalism has made it this way / Old-fashioned fascism will take it away

• 2009, Charles K. Rowley, Nathanael Smith, Economic Contractions in the United States‎^[2], page 61:

  State capitalism rather than laissez-faire capitalism is the primary source of the moral failings which are now the object of populist anger that is being fueled, ironically, by the very politicians who were the chief culprits in stoking the house-price bubble that caused the financial crisis.

• 2023 April 20, David Brooks, “The Power of American Capitalism”, in The New York Times‎^[3], →ISSN:

  In fact, I’m kind of amazed. We’ve lived through a wretched political era. The social fabric is fraying in a thousand ways. But American capitalism rolls on.