Kapitalisme

Kapitalisme adalah sistem ekonomi di mana perdagangan, industri dan alat-alat produksi dikendalikan oleh pemilik swasta dengan tujuan memperoleh keuntungan dalam ekonomi pasar.^[1][2] Pemilik modal dalam melakukan usahanya berusaha untuk meraih keuntungan sebesar-besarnya. Dengan prinsip tersebut, pemerintah tidak dapat melakukan intervensi pasar guna memperoleh keuntungan bersama, tetapi intervensi pemerintah dilakukan secara besar-besaran untuk kepentingan-kepentingan pribadi.

1. ^ "Capitalism" Diarsipkan 2016-08-27 di Wayback Machine. Oxford Dictionaries. "capitalism. 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." Retrieved 4 January 2013.
2. ^ Chris Jenks. Core Sociological Dichotomies. "Capitalism, as a mode of production, is an economic system of manufacture and exchange which is geared toward the production and sale of commodities within a market for profit, where the manufacture of commodities consists of the use of the formally free labor of workers in exchange for a wage to create commodities in which the manufacturer extracts surplus value from the labor of the workers in terms of the difference between the wages paid to the worker and the value of the commodity produced by him/her to generate that profit." London, England, UK; Thousand Oaks, California, USA; New Delhi, India: SAGE. p. 383.