are there any capitalist countries?
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No country in the world has ever achieved a totally capitalist, “laissez-faire,” or free-market economy. Mostly all capitalist economies are mixed.
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There are two major economic systems: capitalism and socialism, but most countries use some combination of the two known as a mixed economy. In pure or laissez-faire capitalism, there is private ownership, and markets and prices coordinate and direct economic activity.
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Capitalism is an economic system based on the private ownership of the means of production and their operation for profit. Central characteristics of capitalism include private property and the recognition of property rights, capital accumulation, wage labor, voluntary exchange, a price system and competitive markets.
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['Australia.', 'Brazil.', 'China.', 'Colombia.', 'Democratic Republic of the Congo.', 'Ecuador.', 'India.', 'Indonesia.']
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A capitalist economy relies on free-markets to determine, price, incomes, wealth and distribution of goods. A socialist economic system is characterised by greater government intervention to re-allocate resources in a more egalitarian way.
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['France.', 'British Empire.', 'Russia.', 'Japan.', 'Italy.', 'United States.']
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Capitalism does have private ownership of businesses. Thus, they would be mutually exclusive. ... With socialism the government or people own the means of production and you can't have capitalism if the means of production is owned by the government.
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['Czechoslovakia.', 'Poland.', 'Belgium.', 'Netherlands.', 'Norway.', 'Denmark.', 'France.', 'United Kingdom.']
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['Albania.', 'Belarus.', 'Bulgaria.', 'China.', 'Cuba.', 'Indonesia.', 'Iran.', 'Kyrgyzstan.']
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Is Serbia a third-world country? As stated by others, Serbia is a second world country. Not under the former division between the capitalist West, the communist East, and the underdevelopped countries.
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The two major economic systems in modern societies are capitalism and socialism.
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['France.', 'Russia.', 'Latin America.', 'Germany.', 'Italy.', 'Greece.', 'Serbia.', 'Poland.']
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Certain other countries such as Croatia, Hungary, Myanmar and Poland have constitutions that make references to their communist and socialist past by recognizing or condemning it, but without claiming to be socialist in the present.
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First-world countries have stable democracies and are characterized by the rule of law, a capitalist economy, and a high standard of living. It was earlier used to refer to countries that were aligned with the United States and other western nations in opposition to the former Soviet Union.
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China, Mongolia and North Korea Yes for all of them (China is still overwhelmingly considered Third World, even if this is somewhat undeserved. It also considers itself Third World).
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['Portugal. ... ', 'South Africa. ... ', 'New Zealand. ... ', 'France. ... ', 'Australia. ... ', 'Nepal. ... ', 'Bolivia. ... ', 'Argentina. Thinkstock.']
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Today, the existing communist states in the world are in China, Cuba, Laos and Vietnam. These communist states often do not claim to have achieved socialism or communism in their countries, but to be building and working toward the establishment of socialism in their countries.