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Record 1 1999-04-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • National and International Economics
DEF

A program of social and economic reconstruction that proposed to place industrial engineers and scientists in control of economic life. The basic tenet of technocracy was that modern society with its technological advances was too complex to be run by politicians and entrepreneurs ... Technocracy had its greatest popularity in the later years of the depression, 1932 and 1933, and has since almost disappeared.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Économie nationale et internationale
DEF

Système politique et social dans lequel les ressources industrielles et sociales d'un pays seraient organisées et contrôlées par des techniciens.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Economía nacional e internacional
DEF

Ejercicio del poder por los técnicos y profesionales no adscritos políticamente a ningún partido o ideología concreta.

OBS

tecnocracia: término y definición extraídos del CAPITAL Business Dictionary con la autorización de LID Editorial Empresarial.

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