Definition of Dirigiste

1. Adjective. Controlled or guided by a central authority, as in an economy. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Dirigiste

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Dirigiste

dirhombicosidodecahedron
dirhombicosidodecahedrons
diribonucleotide
diribonucleotides
dirigation
dirige
dirigent
diriges
dirigible
dirigibles
dirigism
dirigisme
dirigismes
dirigisms
dirigist
dirigiste
dirigomotor
dirimens copulatio
diriment
dirk
dirkas
dirke
dirked
dirkes
dirking
dirkness
dirks
dirl
dirled
dirling

Literary usage of Dirigiste

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Oecd Territorial Reviews by Oecd, OECD Staff (2001)
"These regions, therefore, seem to be moving from a dirigiste to a more ... The existence of dirigiste innovation support systems and therefore the limited ..."

2. Politics Without Frontiers: Role of Political Parties in Europe's Future by Mark ( Leonard (1997)
"... party documents and has isolated two major ideological cleavages that surfaced after 1989. The first is the dirigiste-laissez-faire dimension (including ..."

3. Energy Policies of IEA Countries by International Energy Agency (2002)
"The remaining dirigiste measures certainly affect the attractiveness of the Danish power industry to investors but do not constitute trade barriers per se. ..."

4. The Politics of Trade and Industrial Policy in Africa: Forced Consensus? by Charles Chukwuma Soludo, Michael Osita Ogbu, Ha-Joon Chang (2004)
"Such an expansion and the dirigiste regime that characterised the post-independence era were in some sense rational responses to the objective conditions of ..."

5. American Economic Policy and National Security by Theodore H. Moran (1993)
"The preceding analysis, issue by issue, demonstrates that the extremes, a laissez-faire attitude of merely letting markets work and a dirigiste preference ..."

6. Managing the World Economy: The Consequences of Corporate Alliances by Peter F. Cowhey, Jonathan David Aronson (1993)
"... dirigiste rules. In July 1991 the European Community finally reached a VRA agreement with Japan that set important international precedents, ..."

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