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capitalist state

 
Geography Dictionary: capitalist state

The state provision of infrastructure, external economies, and a regulatory framework facilitates accumulation; the state can limit or increase the freedom of market actors, raise or lower taxes, intervene in major financial crises, and defend and secure its territory—none of which can be accomplished by transnational corporations. The theory of the capitalist state argues that such functions legitimize the state's existence. However, it is argued that the state's capacity to manoeuvre the accumulation regime has been weakened by international finance, trading blocs and the World Trade Organization, transnational corporations, and so on, leading to a loss of national sovereignty. see hollowing out of the state.

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