Dirigisme

//ˈdiɚɹɪʒɪz(ə)m// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A policy of strong state control over the economy and related social matters. countable, uncountable

    "These agents, for the same distributional and paternalistic reasons that motivated many of the socialist experiments in economic dirigisme, may seek to use political authority to modify, at least in part, the results of the market system."

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economocracystatism

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"These agents, for the same distributional and paternalistic reasons that motivated many of the socialist experiments in economic dirigisme, may seek to use political authority to modify, at least in part, the results of the market system."

Etymology

Borrowed from French dirigisme, from diriger (“to run, to direct”), from Latin dirigere (“direct, steer”).

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