Meanings
- uncountableAn ideology that stresses the importance of investment for the health of the economy.
Indeed historian Julia Ott has shown how the federal government's impetus for the investing craze (known as “investorism”) built upon such an ideology.
2012, Thomas Welskopp, Alan Lessoff, Fractured Modernity, →ISBN2 more examples
Certainly for the foreseeable future the commission will be concerned with the contemporary issues of the day — consumerism, environmentalism, inflation, and now investorism. The new investorism comes as a result of investors' feeling that the PUC has given too much attention to consumers in the past.
1979, A. Janell Anderson, Decisionmaking in the California P.U.C, page 57Contrary to mainstream Wall Street assumptions, it was the state that catalyzed both mass investment and investorism during the First World War through the mass selling of Liberty war bonds to some 30 million middle-class Americans.
2009, Karen Ho, Liquidated: An Ethnography of Wall Street, →ISBN, page 180
Origin
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