Some businesses have figured out how to take advantage of an expanded government presence in their boardrooms.

Donald Trump’s success at compelling some American corporations to accept partial government ownership is neither communism nor socialism, as various market fundamentalists have fretted. As I’ve noted ...

Pockets of frustration from corporate America have become more visible recently. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce sued the administration over its plans to start charging $100,000 for H-1B visas 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 ...

President Donald Trump’s increasing control over businesses and the economy is being described by some commentators as “state capitalism”—a mix between socialism and capitalism. But the term “state ...

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 ...

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 ...

Current political and economic issues succinctly explained. Attention to individual acts of market intervention, however, has so far failed to fully understand the Trump administration’s actions as ...

A key development in 2025 was the sharp rise of state capitalism in both Canada and the United States. Increased state ...

As last week was coming to a close, the Washington State Supreme Court issued a landmark ruling on Friday, March 24, permitting the imposition of a state tax on capital gains. The Supreme Court of ...