nationalizations
Government assumes ownership
Nationalizations are instances of a government taking control of private industries or assets, transferring them to public ownership.
The term often appears in discussions of economic policy and political ideology: The nationalizations of the 1940s transformed British industry.
A country might pursue nationalizations of banks, utilities, or natural resources during crises or ideological shifts.
Government-managed economy or society
- public ownershipState-held property or enterprise
- government takeoverState seizing private enterprise
- collectivizationForced communal ownership transfer
- socializationInternalizing cultural norms
central planning · public sector · command economy · industrial policy · government intervention · statism · planned economy · economic reform
Seizure by authority
- seizureForcible taking or convulsion
- takeoverAssuming command of something
- appropriationUnauthorized claiming or allocation
- requisitionFormal order for supplies
asset seizure · eminent domain · dispossession · repossession · compensation · indemnification · forced sale · compulsory purchase
Manmade strait through Egypt
- British RailFormer UK railway network
- AramcoSaudi national oil corporation
- coal minesUnderground fuel extraction sites
- steel industryMetal alloy manufacturing sector
postwar · Attlee · land reform · agrarian reform · revolution · independence movement · anticolonial · socialist
Generating power domestically
- foreign ownershipControl by non-domestic entities
- self-determinationControl over one's fate
- decolonizationEnding imperial control
- postcolonialAfter foreign rule ends
state control
Government-managed economy or society
- public ownershipState-held property or enterprise
- government takeoverState seizing private enterprise
- collectivizationForced communal ownership transfer
socialization · central planning · public sector · command economy · industrial policy · government intervention · statism · planned economy · economic reform · bureaucratization
confiscation
Seizure by authority
- seizureForcible taking or convulsion
- takeoverAssuming command of something
- appropriationUnauthorized claiming or allocation
requisition · asset seizure · eminent domain · dispossession · repossession · compensation · indemnification · forced sale · compulsory purchase · acquisition
Suez Canal
Manmade strait through Egypt
- British RailFormer UK railway network
- AramcoSaudi national oil corporation
- coal minesUnderground fuel extraction sites
steel industry · postwar · Attlee · land reform · agrarian reform · revolution · independence movement · anticolonial · socialist · communist
energy independence
Generating power domestically
- foreign ownershipControl by non-domestic entities
- self-determinationControl over one's fate
- decolonizationEnding imperial control
postcolonial · mineral rights · natural resources · banking sector
- government actionslaws, policies, presidential decree, resolution, mandates
nationalizationsprivatizations
Sales of public assets
privatisations · divestitures · sell-offs · asset sales · divestments
nationalizationscapitalism
Private profit-based economy
Thatcherism · deregulation · Reaganomics · privatizations · laissez-faire