Summary:
In the article “State Capitalism, the visible hand” “Adrian Wooldridge” claims that, because of the beginning of a new form of strong state capitalism the catastrophe of the western liberal capitalism begins. State capitalism tries to meld the powers of the state with the powers of capitalism. It depends on government to pick winners and promote economic growth. The focus is on the rising trend of State capitalism in various economies across the globe. It provides views on the success and potential for continuation of this form of government intervention in mixed economies worldwide. The rise of state capitalism spells the end of free markets and ‘the invisible hand’ by Adam Smith's.
Why it is so important:
The relationship between the state and the capitalism is very important and interesting one. The first half of the 28th century the state is basically expanding its roll, taking over companies and the marketing retreats. From the 19th centuries and onward it got reverse; the market expanding its roll and the state drawing back, privatization is taken in the hand of the business of running companies. Now something remarkable is going on in the moment is the liberal capitalism, in which the state is in crisis. We have seen an extraordinary financial crisis, state is taking over a bunch of companies from which they bankrupt, general sense of depression, the average wage of the average worker is stagnant for years, and we have seen countries like grease actually fowling apart at the moment. Now at the same time in China, Russia, Brazil and other emerging countries the emerging of the new model of capitalism which is called the state capitalism. In which the state takes the most active parts, but this is not quite a return to the earlier pre more model of bureaucrats running companies. It is the creation of hybrid companies that is partly responsible for the state; they are also responsible to the market. They