Capitalist systems function less well without state protection of investors, lenders, and companies against monopoly, deception, and fraud.

In essence, capitalist systems are a mechanism by which economies may generate growth in knowledge - with much uncertainty in the process, owing to the incompleteness of knowledge.

In countries operating a largely capitalist system, there does not appear to be a wide understanding among its actors and overseers of either its advantages or its hazards.

Germany, Italy and France appear to possess less dynamism than do the U.S. and the others.

More and more banks are installing credit-card fraud-protection systems and those systems are getting increasingly sensitive.

An indictment of entitlements has to focus on the huge 'social wealth' that the welfare state creates at the stroke of the pen. Yet statistical tests of the effects of welfare spending on employment yield erratic results.