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dirigisme

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Etymology

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

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Noun

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dirigisme (countable and uncountable, plural dirigismes)

  1. A policy of strong state control over the economy and related social matters. [from 20th c.]
    • 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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Further reading

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  • dirigisme”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

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French

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Etymology

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From diriger +‎ -isme.

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Noun

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dirigisme m (plural dirigismes)

  1. dirigisme (politico-economic doctrine)

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