| Mr Chirac is on the right but, like most of the French right, his economics owe more to dirigisme than Adam Smith. |
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| Will Coalition governments now talk about spending money according to the imperatives of this new dirigisme? |
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| Where it was once frozen in dirigisme under Edward Heath, it became respectable to call for privatisation and deregulation. |
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| Even the public sector-infatuated Scottish public is beginning to doubt the gospel of dirigisme. |
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| Instead, the Bush administration opted for the type of dirigisme one normally associates with a country such as France. |
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| The large bureaucracies that implement dirigisme are a dead weight on society, but support the ruling elites with whom they share the spoils. |
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| The collapse of communism finally undid socialist dirigisme. |
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| Look, no Ministers of Transport, no Euro-directives, no dirigisme. |
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| Contemporary state capitalism is associated with the East Asian model of capitalism, dirigisme and the economy of Norway. |
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| One may cite social conservatism, economic dirigisme and volontarisme as parts of the Gaullist ideology. |
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| It is well and good to hold up the decade of the 1960s, with its dirigisme and protectionism, as a model. |
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| After the war, and even though most wartime controls were finally abolished, it was now generally believed that dirigisme was good. |
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| Neutrality is more relevant to a developed country than to India, which needs more of fiscal dirigisme than passive netutralism. |
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| Dirigisme is an economic policy initiated under Charles de Gaulle of France designating an economy where the government exerts strong directive influence. |
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