Markets, private property, and profits do not make a modern economy. And they certainly do not add up to capitalism. Virtually all precapitalist economies have these necessary, but not sufficient, characteristics. What is distinctive about the capitalist economy is its original discovery that the primary cause of economic development is mind. The cause of wealth is invention, discovery, enterprise.
-Michael Novak, This Hemisphere of Liberty: A Philosophy of the Americas
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