邦訳：2011年5月・日本経済新聞出版社New in paperback. Hardcover was published in 2010. Details the growing phenomenon of state capitalism, a system in which governments drive local economies through ownership of market-dominant companies and large pools of excess capital, using them for political gain. On the intersection of economics and politics, Bremmer has followed the rise of state-owned firms in China, Russia, the Arab states of the Persian Gulf, Iran, Venezuela, and elsewhere.