Dirigiste
adj, noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 An advocate or practitioner of dirigisme.
"Warren wants to centralize economic decisions, creating a Department of Economic Development — a top-down council of government dirigistes."
- 1 Controlled or guided by a central authority, as in an economy.
"The repeated crises in dirigiste systems are in essence crises of information since the abolition of the market leaves the central planner bereft of that economic knowledge which is required for harmony."
Example
More examples"The repeated crises in dirigiste systems are in essence crises of information since the abolition of the market leaves the central planner bereft of that economic knowledge which is required for harmony."
Etymology
Borrowed from French dirigiste, from diriger (“to run, to direct”), from Latin dirigere (“to direct, to steer”).
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