government ownership

This book explores the different kinds of economic systems that have existed in the past and those that currently hold sway today throughout the world subsistence, barter, gift, market, command, planned, mixed, and Internet economies and analyzes each ones relationship to the three criteria of production, ownership, and government control.

This work details the growing phenomenon of state capitalism, a system in which governments drive local economies through ownership of market-dominant companies. This trend, Bremmer argues, threatens America's competitive edge and the conduct of free markets everywhere.