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Centrally vs Dirigisme - What's the difference?

centrally | dirigisme |

As an adverb centrally

is (location) in a central manner or situation; at, to, through or from the centre.

As a noun dirigisme is

any economy in which the government exerts a strong directive influence, often with substantial, but not all, of the characteristics of a centrally planned economy.

centrally

English

Adverb

(en adverb)
  • (location) In a central manner or situation; at, to, through or from the centre.
  • * 1886 , , Series 3, Volume 31, Number 185, pages 377-386,
  • The tubes being filled with distilled water, the light from an electric lamp was directed toward the central glass of the refractometer and the latter adjusted by screws till the light passed centrally down both tubes, and then the right angled prism at the further end adjusted till the light returned and was reflected into the telescope, where generally two images were observed.
  • * 1911 ,
  • Hence for the rain to centrally traverse the tube, this must be inclined at an angle BAD to the vertical;
  • * 1911 ,
  • The labium is prolonged centrally into a “tongue,” which is glandular at the tip; the paraglossae are linear.
  • * 2004 , ,
  • Hungary has made the transition from a centrally planned to a market economy, with a per capita income one-half that of the Big Four European nations.

    dirigisme

    Alternative forms

    * dirigism

    Noun

  • Any economy in which the government exerts a strong directive influence, often with substantial, but not all, of the characteristics of a centrally planned economy.
  • "These agents, for the same distributional and paternalistic reasons that motivated many of the socialist experiments in economic dirigisme , may seek to use political authority to modify, at least in part, the results of the market system."''; in '' The Minimal Politics of Market Order , pp. 222, 1991; Cato Journal 11:2.

    Derived terms

    * dirigist * dirigiste

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