dirigisme

plural dirigismes · alternative dirigism

1. countableuncountableA policy of strong state control over the economy and related social matters.First known use 20th c.

   In the name of development, the reformed states adopted the dirigisme of colonial administration – forced labour re-emerged in them as well.

   2011, Robert C. Allen, Global Economic History: A Very Short Introduction, page 113

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   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