Wages are a major component of costs for any individual capitalist and are the dominating one for the system as a whole.

Not all class struggle is a threat to capitalism, or even to the authority of an individual capitalist.

This view of capitalist management can be traced back to Marx's conception of the individual capitalist as the mere 'personification of capital'.

The individual capitalists follow their individual interests and do not cooperate to achieve a general high rate of growth or rate of profit.

How individual capitalists or groups of them choose to accumulate will have to be explained in terms of personality, entrepreneurial history and material opportunities.

National assets reclaimed from the German Reich and individual German capitalists will be put under the Interim National Management Board.

In the phase of laissez-faire, individual capitalists managed their own businesses in their own interests while the "invisible hand" of market forces coordinated the different efforts.

These data tend to support the charges by critics that many individual capitalists were the direct beneficiaries of the reprivatization program and that government policies beneficial to private-sector interests mostly favored the rich.

Her view is that individual capitalism is coming to the fore and that the unit of trading has shifted from business to the individual capitalist.

To produce anything requires the individual capitalist to buy machines (capital goods) and employ workers.