dirigisme [diːriːˈʒiːzəm] n. (government, politics & diplomacy) control by the state of economic and social matters [fr. french]. dirigiste adj.
i don't know about you, but this strikes me as a rather efficient and elegant word for all the stuff back east. the odd thing is that i cannot recall ever coming across this word in all my years living in two dirigiste societies. i have to move to a bastion of free-market capitalism to learn it. hey people, we ought to say, we own the whole concept.
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