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dirigism

dirigism is the alternative form of dirigisme.

Meaning of dirigisme

Noun

dirigisme (countable and uncountable, plural dirigismes)

  1. A policy of strong state control over the economy and related social matters.
    • 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.1991, James M. Buchanan, The Minimal Politics of Market Order, pp. 222, Cato Journal 11:2

Forms of dirigism

pluraldirigisms

Questions about dirigism

What is dirigism the alternative form of?
Dirigism is the alternative form of dirigisme.

Words near dirigism in the dictionary

  1. dirigents
  2. diriges
  3. dirigibility
  4. dirigible
  5. dirigibles
  6. dirigism
  7. dirigisme
  8. dirigismes
  9. dirigisms
  10. dirigist
  11. dirigiste

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