Definition of "dirigist" []

• Of or pertaining to dirigisme. (adjective)
• A person or collective that favors the ordering of human society by the principles of dirigisme. (noun)

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• "About eve online: doesn't the fact that, in the pure free market economy, the most efficient alliance/corp are the most 'dirigist' (?) one just state that the most efficient capitalistic economy are the least democratic one (or at least that the two are uncorrelated)?"
• "Benjamin Franklin, the founder of the post office, was another dirigist."
• "Which is interesting because for most of the post WW2 period at least France has been ruled by de Gaulle and his political heirs – people who are dirigist to be sure and all in favour of state intervention but not precisely socialist."