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guided capitalism en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (uncountable, usually) A capitalist economic system with some variety of state guidance.
    • ... the difference between socialism and a strategically guided capitalism may be slight, particularly if the emphasis on ownership is found irrelevant. 1940, Alfred Mitchell Bingham, The United States of Europe, page 181:
    • This chapter examines Japan's guided capitalism, which connotes a major state role in spurring private-sector investment and improved technology [....] 1995, E. Wayne Nafziger, Learning from the Japanese: Japan's Pre-War Development and the Third World, page 53:
    • He calls it a guided capitalism. I think of it more as corporate capitalism. Singapore is run much as one would run one of the corporate elephants, 2003, Charles Handy, The Elephant and the Flea, page 125:
    • It has been called a policy of "guided capitalism," and seeks to "preserve free enterprise" by numerous large-scale adjustments [....] 1948, David McCord Wright, Democracy and Progress, page 179:
    • Therefore, on the understanding that the essence of the bourgeois economy will be absent from the picture, we may call this system Guided Capitalism. 1951, Joseph Alois Schumpeter, Essays, page 182:

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