state capitalism

Nationalized market economy

State capitalism is an economic system in which the government owns or controls major industries and enterprises while operating them according to capitalist principles—pursuing profit, competing in markets, and accumulating capital.

The term describes arrangements from China's state-owned enterprises to sovereign wealth funds: Critics call it state capitalism rather than socialism because workers don't control production.

Sometimes used pejoratively to suggest a system claims socialist ideals while functioning capitalistically.

system

national champions

Team that won nationally

economic planning · mixed economy · government monopoly · dirigisme · command economy · protectionism · import substitution · trade barriers · subsidies · infrastructure development

ideology

Marxism-Leninism

State-led revolutionary socialism

planned economy · corporatism · mercantilism · economic nationalism · Leninism

governance

central planning

Government directs all production

centralization · oversight · policymaking · administration · compliance · enforcement · five-year plans · technocracy · authoritarianism · single-party rule

countries

China

East Asian superpower

Vietnam · United Arab Emirates · Norway · Kazakhstan · Belarus · Venezuela · BRICS · Gulf states · petrostates · emerging markets

enterprise

Aramco

Saudi national oil corporation

telecommunications · energy sector · banking sector · defense industry · heavy industry

Categories
Opposites
state economic control

state capitalismanarcho-capitalism

Stateless free-market ideology

laissez-faire economics · free enterprise · neoliberalism · classical liberalism · privatization

market freedom

state capitalismfree enterprise

Privately owned, competitive economy

private enterprise · private ownership · spontaneous order · market economy · worker cooperatives

market orientation

state capitalismmarket economy

Commerce-based economic system

spontaneous order · Austrian economics · competitive markets · command economy · central planning

Family

state, capitalism, capitalist, capitalists, capitalistic, state capitals, anticapitalism, anticapitalist, state capital

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