dirigist

comparative more dirigist · superlative most dirigist

1. alternativeAlternative form of dirigiste.

   Concern with the visible short run effects thus progressively leads to a dirigist organization of the whole society.

   1976, Friedrich Hayek, Law, Legislation and Liberty

plural dirigistes

1. alternativeAlternative form of dirigiste.

   But we have not, at least by 1997, observed any postrevolutionary reduction in the zeal of the dirigistes, who seem, genuinely, to consider themselves both epistemologically and morally superior to their fellow citizens.

   1998, James M. Buchanan, Politics by Principle, Not Interest: Toward Nondiscriminatory Democracy, page 208