corporatocracy

English

Etymology

From corporate +‎ -o- +‎ -cracy.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɒkɹəsi

Noun

corporatocracy (usually uncountable, plural corporatocracies)

1. Rule by corporations.
   • 2007 July 15, Joe Queenan, “Covert Ops”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     He spent most of the 1970s and ’80s helping the evil corporatocracy that runs the Secret American Empire establish suzerainty over the Middle East, Southeast Asia, South America and Africa.

   • 2011, Jeffrey Sachs, The Price of Civilization: Economics and Ethics After the Fall, Random House, →ISBN, page 105:

     This chapter examines the politics of America's corporatocracy, a political system in which powerful corporate interest groups dominate the policy agenda. We can see how the corporatocracy arose as the confluence of four big trends.

See also

• inverted totalitarianism

Further reading

• corporatocracy on Wikipedia.Wikipedia