dirigiste en · ADJ
Pronunciation
Etymology
Borrowed from French dirigiste, from diriger (“to run, to direct”), from Latin dirigere (“to direct, to steer”).
Meanings
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Controlled or guided by a central authority, as in an economy.
The repeated crises in dirigiste systems are in essence crises of information since the abolition of the market leaves the central planner bereft of that economic knowledge which is required for harmony.
1982, Norman Barry, “The Tradition of Spontaneous Order”, in Literature of Liberty, volume 5, number 2, page 10:Certainly, popular demands and the force of circumstances have already pushed the Biden administration towards a dirigiste programme of government-led recovery that has no real precedent since the 1960s.
2022, Jeremy Gilbert, Alex Williams, “Strange Times”, in Hegemony Now, London: Verso, →ISBN, part III:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| dirigist | alternative | lexicographic | |
| most dirigiste | Degree=Sup | lexicographic | |
| more dirigiste | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic |
Relateds
Translations (6)
cs dirigistický (controlled or guided by a central authority, as in an economy) · it dirigistico (controlled or guided by a central authority, as in an economy) · sv dirigistisk (controlled or guided by a central authority, as in an economy) · es dirigista (controlled or guided by a central authority, as in an economy) · de dirigistisch (controlled or guided by a central authority, as in an economy) · ca dirigista (controlled or guided by a central authority, as in an economy)