Meanings
- not comparableeconomicsOf or relating to a political movement that criticises neoclassical economics and advocates a pluralistic approach.
Origin
- Frenchautisme-économie“autism economics”
- Englishpostautistic
From post- + autistic, derived from the French autisme-économie (“autism economics”), itself from an older sense of French autisme to mean "abnormal subjectivity" or "acceptance of fantasy rather than reality."
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