different between dirigisms vs dirigisme

English

Noun

dirigisms

1. plural of dirigism

English

Alternative forms

• dirigism

Etymology

Borrowed from French dirigisme, from diriger (“to run, to direct”), from Latin dirigere, present active infinitive of d?rig? (“direct, steer”)

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?d?????z(?)m/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?di?????z(?)m/

Noun

dirigisme (countable and uncountable, plural dirigismes)

1. A policy of strong state control over the economy and related social matters. [from 20th c.]
   • 1991, James M. Buchanan, The Minimal Politics of Market Order, pp. 222, Cato Journal 11:2:

     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.

Derived terms

• dirigist
• dirigiste

Translations

Further reading

• dirigisme at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• semi-rigid, semirigid

French

Etymology

diriger +? -isme.

Pronunciation

Noun

dirigisme m (plural dirigismes)

1. dirigisme (politico-economic doctrine)