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The term "Industrial Growth Society" was reportedly coined by Sigmund Kwaloy; a benefit over the punching bag that is Capitalism is that IGS includes nation states that dictate year-over-year growth. The distinction between "state run" and "free market" may be vague given revolving doors between government and industry, though some nations do have more in the way of state-managed affairs, while others have maybe less of a free market than claimed given tax breaks and other such incentives. It's not much of an invisible hand when one can see the thumb on the scale.
Similarities can be found between state-run and market-oriented powers; both the U.S.A. and the U.S.S.R. managed to create dust bowls and superfund sites; both dabbled with Fordism and Taylorism. There has been some progress towards not creating great smogs yet superfund sites do persist, or the pollution has been shuffled off elsewhere, much as a child may move a mess to claim that the room is now clean. One must simply avoid the cost of reducing those entropic gains.