corporatocracy
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From corporate + -o- + -cracy.
Pronunciation
[edit]- Rhymes: -ɒkɹəsi
Noun
[edit]corporatocracy (usually uncountable, plural corporatocracies)
- 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
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- corporatocracy on Wikipedia.Wikipedia