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- adjective Apparently, but not actually,
economic ; having certain aspects of aneconomy .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Cather's theme is the Rosicky family's independence from any ordinary, pseudoeconomic plot.
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A pseudoeconomic novelist would have portrayed her as a victim of her environment, the captive of a heartless landscape where her father kills himself in despair, where she is seduced by a worthless lover and abandoned to bear his child, where she is finally forced by circumstances to marry a man for whom she feels no passion.
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[102] In Cather's stories, what goes sailing out the window is pseudoeconomic "realism" and its assumption that values are determined by what people have (or do not have) instead of by what people choose.
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[128] It would be a pseudoeconomic world, a world without prices or costs or the prospects and risks of creative endeavor.
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