Sentence examples for dirigisme in from inspiring English sources
Everyone expected to see the party shift sharply to dirigisme, in accordance with Mr Séguin's own preoccupations.
Dirigisme flourished in the 1950s and 1960s in France, but sour economic results, uncompetitive enterprises, and declining sectors forced the government to largely renounce dirigisme in the 1980s.
There is a fair bit of tentative dirigisme in there: a national infrastructure plan; transport links upgraded with macro-economic design; exemption from carbon targets for crucial industries; 100% capex tax exemption in the north of England.
He did not attend the elite Ecole Nationale d'Administration, so is not programmed to believe in dirigisme.
Dirigisme was introduced in France following World War II to promote industrialization and protect against foreign competition, and it was subsequently mimicked in East Asia.
Nor was the word limited to economics: in the earliest entry in the O.E.D., from a 1951 Archivum Linguisticum, a roundheeled lexicographer sneered at "Linguistic dirigisme, standards of correctness in a constantly evolving language".
In France dirigisme took the form of indicative planning, which entailed government credit policies and subsidies, developing new technologies, and the regulation of employment overseen by a special planning commission, the Commissariat au Plan.
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The other countries feared that French dirigisme might capture the bank in its formative years.
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The economy is still in transition between dirigisme and free markets.
