The Spectre of State Capitalism

Ilias Alami, Assistant Professor in the Political Economy of Development, Cambridge University,Adam D. Dixon, Adam Smith Chair in Sustainable Capitalism, Edinburgh Business School, Heriot-Watt University

Dr Ilias Alami is an Assistant Professor in the Political Economy of Development in the Centre of Development Studies and the Department of Politics and International Studies at Cambridge University. Prior to joining Cambridge, he held research and teaching positions at Uppsala University, Maastricht University, and Manchester University. He also held visiting positions at the Getulio Vargas Foundation in Sao Paulo, the University of Johannesburg, and Sciences Po Paris. He holds a PhD in Politics from the University of Manchester.


Professor Adam D. Dixon holds the Adam Smith Chair in Sustainable Capitalism at Adam Smith's Panmure House, the last and final home of moral philosopher and father of economics Adam Smith. Previously, he worked at the University of Bristol and Maastricht University in the Netherlands, where he led a large European Research Council project on sovereign wealth funds. He holds a D.Phil. in economic geography from the University of Oxford, a Diplôme (Master) de l'Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris, and a BA in international affairs and Spanish literature from The George Washington University in Washington, DC.

1. State Capitalism(s) Redux?2. Theories, Tensions, Controversies3. The Problématique of State Capitalism4. Rooting State Capitalism in the Churn of Uneven Development5. State Capitalism Begets State Capitalism: On Combination and Political Multiplicity6. Expropriation of Capitalist by State Capitalist: Centralizing Capital as State Property7. The Rhetorical Weaponization of the New State Capitalism8. Liberal Anxieties and Ideological Adjustment in Global Development9. A Specter Haunting Capitalism?