interventionism

interventionist | Business English

interventionist
adjective
uk /ˌɪntəˈvenʃənɪst/ us /-ṱɚ-/
ECONOMICS
becoming involved in influencing a country's economy:
Conservatives are keen not to be interventionist.
an interventionist approach/measure/policy
interventionist
noun[ C ]
 ECONOMICSuk /ˌɪntəˈvenʃənɪst/ us /-ṱɚ-/
someone who believes in becoming involved in influencing a country's economy:
He was by nature an interventionist rather than a free marketeer.

Examples of interventionist

interventionist
A precondition for the plan's success is therefore the use of interventionist techniques of economic management.
He defines the heterogeneous products as interventionist products that protect defined interests and/or supersede voluntary transactions.
Controlled interventionist experimentation could help to move beyond the "wanderings through the scholastic maze" that traditional zoology had brought.
One source of motivation can be traced to the persistence of an interventionist agenda within the policy community.
The latter will put collective considerations before individual autonomy, ready to adopt more ruthlessly interventionist strategies even if this means infringing personal liberty.
By and large policies regarding the family were less interventionist and more conservative than programmatic statements would have led one to expect.
This is the most interventionist of the archetypes because we are aware of the continuing imposition of gesture.
Then preferences are serially updated based on more recent historical experience with broadly interventionist or liberal policy regimes.
In social policy terms, the rise of 'welfarism' in western capitalism saw the boundary redrawn towards an expanded (and more interventionist) public realm.
Its provision is characterised by universal and comparatively generous benefits, a commitment to full employment and income protection, and a strongly interventionist state.
This is an alternative measure of preferences in the electorate for interventionist economic policies in general and generous social insurance policies more specifically.
What were previously sunrise industries may become sunset industries, calling into play interventionist mechanisms that were not present before.
Finally, the expertise of the operators, and the good teamwork between echocardiographer and interventionist, are major factors for successful closure.
Some related research has appeared recently which seems to accept a similar general framework, but instead takes a more interventionist approach.
Government, in the process of winding itself back, is remedial and interventionist.
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