History and Records

The history of capitalism is diverse and has many debated roots, but fully fledged capitalism is generally thought by scholars to have emerged in Northwestern Europe, especially in Great Britain and the Netherlands, in the sixteenth to seventeenth centuries. Over the following centuries, capital has accumulated by a variety of different methods, in a variety of scales, and associated with a great deal of variation in the concentration of wealth and economic power. Capitalism has gradually become the dominant economic system throughout the world.[1][2][3] Much of the ...

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to knowledge:

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to history: