State-Directed Economic Systems and Doctrines

Economic systems and doctrines in which the state directs, owns or steers economic activity toward goals that it sets. An entry belongs here when its cited source describes government control over trade, production or investment, whether as an early modern policy of strengthening a state through trade, as a central plan that allocates resources, as state ownership of firms that operate in markets, or as a deliberate state strategy to build industry and raise growth. These entries differ widely in ideology and period, and they share the idea that the state, rather than markets alone, decides the main direction of the economy.