The last few weeks have given us headlines many Americans never imagined they’d see. “Trump Embraces State Capitalism.” “Trump Is Making Socialism Great Again.” “Is MAGA going Marxist and Maoist?” For ...

The term state capitalism does not have a single definition that is used with consistency and uniformity. The definitions that have been used depend on the context of the discussion, both historically ...

State capitalism denotes a mode of economic organisation in which the state plays a central role as investor, regulator and owner of productive assets. Emerging from shifts in global markets, ...

A generation ago conventional wisdom held that as China liberalized, its economy would come to resemble America’s. Instead, capitalism in America is starting to look like China. Recent examples ...

The term "State Capitalism" is frequently used in two different ways : first, as an economic form in which the state performs the role of the capitalist employer, exploiting the workers in the ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. The question of whether President Trump has turned the United States toward a new “state capitalism” — one in ...

Attention to individual acts of market intervention, however, has so far failed to fully understand the Trump administration’s actions as part of a single, evolving pattern of state behavior.

My fellow pro-growth/progress/abundance Up Wingers, In Washington, occasional efforts at industrial policy (of which I’m highly skeptical as a baseline) usually take shape through length and ...

The ideas here have been expanded in The Problématique of State Capitalism as part of the book The Spectre of State Capitalism with Adam D Dixon (2023) available via Open Access here. At the risk of ...

How to assess the health of democratic capitalism in the United States? Fundamentally, it is very strong. The marriage of democratic politics and a free-market economy continues to strengthen each, ...