Dirigisme

Pronunciation

• IPA: /dɪˈriːdʒɪzÉ™m/

Alternative forms

• dirigism

Origin

Borrowing from fr dirigisme, from diriger ("to run, to direct"), from Latin dirigere, present active infinitive of dīrigō ("direct, steer")

Full definition of dirigisme

Noun

1. Any economy in which the government exerts a strong directive influence, often with substantial, but not all, of the characteristics of a centrally planned economy."These agents, for the same distributional and paternalistic reasons that motivated many of the socialist experiments in economic dirigisme, may seek to use political authority to modify, at least in part, the results of the market system."; in The Minimal Politics of Market Order, pp. 222, 1991; Cato Journal 11:2.

Derived terms

• dirigist
• dirigiste

Anagrams

• semirigid