dirigiste

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US policies continue to allow foreign dirigiste economies to steal a march on solar and carbon-reducing technologies.

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  1. Directed by a central authority; as, a dirigiste economy; with respect to economics, opposed to free-market. See also dirigisme.

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  • US policies continue to allow foreign dirigiste economies to steal a march on solar and carbon-reducing technologies. —  Discourse.net
  • I think that the points are adequately made that the materialist, atheist and dirigiste aspects of Communism appeal to those of little natural ability and enable them to gain coercive powers to destroy freedom. —  Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
  • "This financial crisis might well bring out India's latent but powerful dirigiste impulses," warns Raghuram Rajan, an economic advisor to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and a professor at the University of Chicago. —  Opinion Source: Delivering summaries of editorial and op-ed pieces from major papers by email.
  • If China's dirigiste tradition and its weak rule of law disrupt its compliance with these trade-related regimes, how well would it implement GHG limits that it had been adopted only grudgingly?
  • Conversely, in the average European biol - ogy laboratory you will find fervent believers in the individualist, emergent, decentralised properties of genomes who prefer dirigiste determinism to bring order to the economy. —  Reason Magazine - All Reason Articles from the Past Year: Page 1
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