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There has never been an economic invention to rival capitalism. Its capacity for creating wealth is legendary. Capitalism is, in practice, the Darwinian loosing of human animals upon the jungle of commerce.
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Bouza, T. (1996). Capitalism. In: The Decline and Fall of the American Empire. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-6034-4_3
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