As a unifying Europe asserts its regulatory muscle, its entrepreneurs are in flight to the United States, where they are less subject to what the French call dirigisme, or direction by bureaucrats. From Wordnik.com. [The Amazing Euroman] Reference
I had to switch over to Merriam Webster on line to look up "dirigisme". From Wordnik.com. [Sound Politics: Because dirigisme has worked so well in France] Reference
Specifically, she sold off national assets at obscenely undervalued prices, while subjecting the rest of the public sector forty per cent of the economy to an unprecedented level of central government 'dirigisme'. From Wordnik.com. [Surprise of the Week: Hitchens Critical of Cameron] Reference
He speaks openly of his firm belief in the virtues of "dirigisme" and the Kremlin's strong "manual control.". From Wordnik.com. [The Moscow Times] Reference
| Because dirigisme has worked so well in France ». From Wordnik.com. [Sound Politics: A legislative coup to undermine the people's constitutional right of initiative] Reference
« Because dirigisme has worked so well in France |. From Wordnik.com. [Sound Politics: Huh?] Reference
Sound Politics: Because dirigisme has worked so well in France. From Wordnik.com. [Sound Politics: Because dirigisme has worked so well in France] Reference
The economy is still in transition between dirigisme and free markets. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Doctoroff: Chinese Godzillas? The Phantom Threat of PRC Brands] Reference
Erdogan's story illustrates the West's political dirigisme of the Islamic sphere -- which has backfired so often elsewhere. From Wordnik.com. [What's Going On With Turkey?] Reference
But it does seem to excite admiration among Western pundits with a soft spot for economic dirigisme and technocratic politics. From Wordnik.com. [Red Scare Reprise] Reference
I would like to know the source of the third quote, given that the editorialists is also giving a critique of French dirigisme. From Wordnik.com. [Remembering Meiji: Translations] Reference
The riots find their deep roots in the fact that France is one of the last experiments of Western dirigisme code word for ‘socialism’. From Wordnik.com. [Policy Responses Will Determine France’s Future - The Austrian Economists] Reference
While even former communists steer toward market economies, the French stubbornly cling to dirigisme, a sort of state-manipulated capitalism. From Wordnik.com. [Liberte, Egalite, Mediocrite] Reference
But as the financial crisis unfolded and his popularity declined, Mr. Sarkozy also showed his attachment to traditional French dirigisme, or state intervention in business. From Wordnik.com. [Europe's Choice: Growth or Safety Net] Reference
Economists such as Wade conveniently ignore the strong relationship between free markets and successful development in the long run and believe that dirigisme will work better as an alternative. From Wordnik.com. [The Austrian Economists:] Reference
Even Medicare Part D had its silver lining, for it became the vehicle for introducing health savings accounts, the first step toward rolling back the tide of dirigisme and bureaucracy in health care. From Wordnik.com. [Stromata Blog:] Reference
The "pioneers" of development economics were forced into a defensive posture as they fended off accusations of providing the intellectual scaffolding for dirigisme, which had failed, as well as of downplaying the role of the market. From Wordnik.com. [Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, at the Annual Bank Conference on Development Economics] Reference
The Economist is right in saying that the “biggest lesson of the French riots is that more jobs are needed,” but this is to mean only one thing: less socialism, bad policies and French dirigisme; freer markets and a freer society. From Wordnik.com. [Policy Responses Will Determine France’s Future - The Austrian Economists] Reference
Our new order also can't be described as trending toward dirigisme, the economic approach of Charles de Gaulle, where government directs the allocation of resources toward chosen technologies — in the French case, nuclear power, high-speed rail, Le Minitel. From Wordnik.com. [Name That Economy!] Reference
The French are famous for industrial policy under the guise of dirigisme. From Wordnik.com. [International Political Economy Zone] Reference
Anything that can stop this dash toward dirigisme, or at least slow it down, is a good thing. From Wordnik.com. [Reason Magazine] Reference
Two current examples of Democrat-Socialist dirigisme are "green" energy and nationalized healthcare. From Wordnik.com. Reference
Among French politicians, it can mean dirigisme, and putting growth ahead of budget deficits or inflation. From Wordnik.com. [The Economist: Correspondent's diary]
The intervention capacity of the big bourgeoisie progressively increases as we move away from dirigisme to neo-liberalism. From Wordnik.com. [MRZine.org] Reference
I don't mean the measure itself, obviously: a wretched piece of dirigisme which will end in stagnation, inflation and debt. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph Blogs] Reference
Through enlargement to the east, the EU is now firmly anglophile, and leans away from dirigisme and towards free-market philosophies. From Wordnik.com. [The Coffee House | Politics and News Discussion Forum] Reference
At a time when dirigisme and state intervention is viewed as the solution to all our economic problems, I have been disappointed to see. From Wordnik.com. [The Economist: Correspondent's diary] Reference
The late seventies, it must be remembered, mark more or less the emergence of "Reaganomics" and the decline of dirigisme in the United States. From Wordnik.com. [MRZine.org] Reference
The Japanese may have practiced a form of dirigisme all their own, but they at least understood being productive requires that you to produce, and produce something others will buy. From Wordnik.com. [Home]
France's President Nicolas Sarkozy harked back to the best tradition of French dirigisme on Thursday as he unveiled policies aimed at tightening the government's hold on state companies and reversing the decline of French industry. From Wordnik.com. [European Tribune] Reference
I asked directions to anything just to hear her speak .. michaelreuter: @loic frenchness tags: taste, savoir vivre, grandezza, dirigisme, intellectuel, culture, nourriture, paris, st. tropez, arrogance vaelentin: @loic: What is your 1 / 4 French?. From Wordnik.com. [Loic Le Meur podcast] Reference
There’s a lesson in this for those who believe that the world’s environmental problems call for a new era of dirigisme. From Wordnik.com. [Global Warming and the Poor] Reference
Because dirigisme has worked so well in France. From Wordnik.com. [Sound Politics: Because dirigisme has worked so well in France] Reference
He was a forerunner of dirigisme and had influenced Marx with his book: "Nouveaux principes d'économie politique. 1819. From Wordnik.com. [The Ancient Regime] Reference
There's also some dirigisme at work. From Wordnik.com. [Slate Magazine] Reference
"dirigisme". From Wordnik.com. [The Earth Times Online Newspaper] Reference
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