Here is the definition I'm working from: "private ownership of capital and means of production meets market competition, driving resource efficiency, innovation, and maximizing profit while respond to consumer demand resulting in GDP growth."
If you take that definition then look at the last 100 years, only 4 names come up:
Japan, South Korea, Singapore and Taiwan. No countries in the world in the last 100 years have applied capitalism, then grown, the way those countries have.
I'd be curious how you define capitalism, and then the countries you think have applied it better than the ones I've mentioned in my posts on this subject.
These graphs don't go back 100 years, but they do show fairly similar growth.
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=canada%20gdp%20per%20ca...
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=uk%20gdp%20per%20capita...
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=germany%20gdp%20per%20c...
Compared with Japan:
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=japan%20gdp%20per%20cap...
Only South Korea is the stand-out here:
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=south%20korea%20gdp%20p...