Economics · Curated list
Communism, Capitalism, Socialism and 12 more, ranked by how much of the world has written about each one.
Most written-about first. Each description summarises the system's Wikipedia article, which its name links to.
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Political and socioeconomic ideology
A political and economic ideology that aims at a communist society: a classless socioeconomic order in which the means of production, of distribution and of exchange are owned in common, and which shares out products according to need. Such a society would have no private property or social classes, and in the end no money or state.
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Economic system based on private ownership
An economic system in which the means of production are privately owned and used to make a profit. It has developed historically in stages and is defined by several elements: private property and the drive for profit, markets that compete, the accumulation of capital, the turning of things into commodities, labour for wages, and a stress on innovation and growth.
Political philosophy emphasising social ownership of production
A political philosophy and economic ideology covering diverse economic and social systems marked by social, not private, ownership of the means of production. The word also covers the theories and movements, social, political and economic, connected with putting such systems into practice.
Legal and military structure in medieval Europe
Also called the feudal system, the mix of institutions and customs, political, religious, cultural, military, economic and legal, that flourished across medieval Europe between the 9th and 15th centuries. Broadly, it organised society around relationships arising from holding land in return for service or labour.
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Economic, political, and judicial institution during the Middle Ages in Europe
Also called seigneurialism, the manor system or the manorial system, the way land was held in parts of Europe in the Middle Ages, especially in France and later in England. Its defining features were a large manor house or castle, sometimes fortified, from which the lord of the manor ran a rural estate and where he lived with those who depended on him, and a population of serfs or labourers who worked the land around it to support themselves and the lord.
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Social and economic model in Nordic countries
The economic and social policies, and typical cultural practices, shared by the Nordic countries. Historically it combined a comprehensive welfare state and collective bargaining at several levels, based on social corporatism, with a commitment to private ownership within a mixed, market-based economy.
Economic and social systems that enable shared access to assets
A socio-economic system in which consumers share in making, producing, distributing, trading and consuming goods and services. It takes various forms, often using information technology and the Internet, digital platforms especially, to share, reuse and distribute the spare capacity of goods and services.
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Economic system based on social ownership of the means of production in a market economy
A kind of economic system combining social ownership of the means of production with a market economy. It has various models, usually built on cooperative enterprises and sometimes mixed with public or private ones.
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Economy directed to basic subsistence
An economy aimed at basic subsistence, not at keeping up a market in essential and desirable goods.
Chinese economic philosophy
Often shortened to SME, the economic system and development model of the People's Republic of China: a market economy in which public ownership and state-owned enterprises predominate.
Type of economic system
Also called a redistribution economy, a way of organising an economy in which much of the wealth passes into the hands of a central administration, the palace, and flows out again from there to the people. The people may have their own sources of income, but depend heavily on what the palace distributes.
Distributive economic theory
A distributive philosophy of political economy that the British engineer and economist C. H. Douglas developed in the 1920s and 1930s. Douglas blamed economic downturns on gaps between what goods cost and what the workers who made them were paid.
Current economic system in Vietnam
The official name the ruling Communist Party gives to Vietnam's present economic system. It is described as a market economy of many sectors in which the state sector plays the deciding part in steering economic development, with communism as the eventual long-term goal.
Structured relationships between international actors
In international relations, the patterned or structured relationships between actors at the international level.
Every Wikidata item that is an economic system, and that has its own English Wikipedia article, ranked by the number of Wikimedia sites with a page about it — Wikipedia's language editions, mostly, and sister projects such as Wikiquote. That counts how many communities independently thought it worth describing, and nobody can buy a place on it. The top 15 are shown.
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