dirigisme

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Etymology

Borrowed from French dirigisme, from diriger (“to run, to direct”), from Latin dirigere, present active infinitive of dīrigō (“direct, steer”).

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈdɪɹɪʒɪz(ə)m/
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  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈdiɚɹɪʒɪz(ə)m/
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Noun

dirigisme (countable and uncountable, plural dirigismes)

  1. A policy of strong state control over the economy and related social matters.
    • 1991, James M. Buchanan, The Minimal Politics of Market Order, pp. 222, Cato Journal 11:2:
      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.
    • 2011, Robert C. Allen, Global Economic History: A Very Short Introduction, page 113:
      In the name of development, the reformed states adopted the dirigisme of colonial administration – forced labour re-emerged in them as well.

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  • “dirigisme”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

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French

Etymology

From diriger +‎ -isme.

Pronunciation

Noun

dirigisme m (plural dirigismes)

  1. dirigisme (politico-economic doctrine)

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