dirigiste

English edit

Borrowed from French dirigiste, from diriger (“to run, to direct”), from Latin dirigere, present active infinitive of dīrigō (“I direct, I steer”).

(US) IPA^(key): /dɪɹəˈʒist/, /dɪɹɪˈʒist/
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dirigiste (comparative more dirigiste, superlative most dirigiste)

Controlled or guided by a central authority, as in an economy.
- 1982, Norman Barry, “The Tradition of Spontaneous Order”, in Literature of Liberty, volume 5, number 2, page 10:
  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.
- 2022, Jeremy Gilbert, Alex Williams, “Strange Times”, in Hegemony Now, London: Verso, →ISBN, part III:
  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.

controlled or guided by a central authority, as in an economy

dirigiste (plural dirigistes)

An advocate or practitioner of dirigisme.
- 2019 July 1, David Brooks, “Moderates Have the Better Story”, in The New York Times:
  Warren wants to centralize economic decisions, creating a Department of Economic Development — a top-down council of government dirigistes.