Mercantilism Vs Laissez Faire Society

In the mid-19th century, a great system of economics, which would change our lives forever, was formed. That system was called capitalism. Capitalism is an economic system that was created by combining many parts of many other economic systems. Capitalism was based on the idea that private individuals, and business firms would carry out all factors of production and trade. They would also control prices and markets on their own. Mercantilism was the pre cursor to Capitalism although each of them different in many ways. Mercantilism was for the wealth of the state, while the motive of capitalism was for the wealth of the individual. There were many outlines for this new system called capitalism, which would make it different from any other economic system we have ever seen. What made capitalism different from all other economic systems was that production facilities, land, and capital were all privately owned. What made capitalism different was the government did not control the economy entirely. Capital is based on the idea of free economic decisions for the people; basically the people were free to spend their money how they like. Companies on the other hand were able to decide what they wanted to produce and how much to charge. In a capitalistic society, the prices of
Adam Smiths view of having a complete "laissez faire" society did not come true in today's world because our government is very much involved in our lives, and defiantly has a greater presence in business. Malthus's prediction also did not come completely true as we today that overpopulation is not our main problem at least in the United States. As for Marx's and Engels' philosophies they did not take off because people do not want to be limited in the amount of money they could earn. Although communism did develop in countries like Cuba and China they did not develop in the way they were supposed