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dirigiste

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dir`i`giste´
a.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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When these vast masses of humanity are allowed by their dirigiste governments to form demographically and politically dominant middle classes and to generate their own domestic demand, then and only then will the world become "immune from America.
Chipperfield welcomed the relative freeing up of planning in London, but noted that in order really to achieve something specific within certain time frames, you needed a dirigiste authority to bring it about--for example the Olympic Delivery Authority.
In rejecting a dirigiste (a term never explicitly defined despite an entire chapter on the subject), or top-down model that views the central government as either a benevolent or malevolent leviathan, the book opts for a horizontal, as well as vertical, explanation.
 
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