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Meaning of "economism" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF ECONOMISM

economism  [ɪˈkɒnəˌmɪzəm] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF ECONOMISM

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Economism is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES ECONOMISM MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Economism

Economism is reduction of all social facts to economic dimensions. The term is often used to criticize economics as an ideology, in which supply and demand are the only important factors in decisions, and outstrip or permit ignoring all other factors. It is believed to be a side effect of neoclassical economics and blind faith in an "invisible hand" or "laissez-faire" means of making decisions, extended far beyond controlled and regulated markets, and used to make political and military decisions. Conventional ethics would play no role in decisions under pure economism, except insofar as supply would be withheld, demand curtailed, by moral choices of individuals. Thus, critics of economism insist on political and other cultural dimensions in society. Old Right social critic Albert Jay Nock used the term more broadly, denoting a moral and social philosophy "which interprets the whole sum of human life in terms of the production, acquisition, and distribution of wealth". He went on to say "I have sometimes thought that here may be the rock on which Western civilization will finally shatter itself.

Definition of economism in the English dictionary

The first definition of economism in the dictionary is a political theory that regards economics as the main factor in society, ignoring or reducing to simplistic economic terms other factors such as culture, nationality, etc. Other definition of economism is the belief that the main aim of a political group, trade union, etc, is to improve the material living standards of its members. Economism is also a political belief that the sole concern of the working classes should be with improving their living conditions and not with political reforms.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH ECONOMISM


academism
əˈkædəˌmɪzəm
alarmism
əˈlɑːmɪzəm
animism
ˈænɪˌmɪzəm
atomism
ˈætəˌmɪzəm
Benthamism
ˈbɛnθəˌmɪzəm
bromism
ˈbrəʊˌmɪzəm
dynamism
ˈdaɪnəˌmɪzəm
dysphemism
ˈdɪsfɪˌmɪzəm
endemism
ˈɛndəmɪzəm
euphemism
ˈjuːfɪˌmɪzəm
extremism
ɪkˈstriːmɪzəm
minimism
ˈmɪnɪˌmɪzəm
opiumism
ˈəʊpɪəˌmɪzəm
optimism
ˈɒptɪˌmɪzəm
overoptimism
ˌəʊvərˈɒptɪˌmɪzəm
pancosmism
pænˈkɒzˌmɪzəm
pessimism
ˈpɛsɪˌmɪzəm
racemism
ˈræsɪˌmɪzəm
seismism
ˈsaɪzˌmɪzəm
totemism
ˈtəʊtəˌmɪzəm

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE ECONOMISM

economic geology
economic indicator
economic management
economic migrant
economic rationalism
economic rent
economic sanctions
economic zone
economical
economically
economics
economies
economies of scale
economisation
economiser
economist
economistic
economization
economize
economizer

WORDS THAT END LIKE ECONOMISM

bathmism
bedlamism
chemism
cosmism
Humism
Islamism
logical atomism
momism
Moslemism
nomism
nonconformism
Pan-Islamism
panspermism
photochromism
reformism
short-termism
thermochromism
Thomism
transformism
Uncle Tomism

Synonyms and antonyms of economism in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «economism» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF ECONOMISM

Find out the translation of economism to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of economism from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «economism» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

经济主义
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

economicismo
570 millions of speakers

English

economism
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

economism
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

اقتصادانية
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

экономизм
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

economicismo
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

অর্থনীতিবাদ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

économisme
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Ekonomi
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Ökonomismus
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

経済主義
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

경제주의
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Ekonomi
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

nghĩa kinh tế
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

பொருளாதாரவாதம்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

अर्थशास्त्री
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

ekonomizmi
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

economicismo
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

ekonomizm
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

економізм
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

economism
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

οικονομισμό
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

ekonomisme
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

ekonomism
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

økonom
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of economism

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «ECONOMISM»

The term «economism» is normally little used and occupies the 143.165 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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Principal search tendencies and common uses of economism
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «ECONOMISM» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «economism» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «economism» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about economism

EXAMPLES

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ECONOMISM»

Discover the use of economism in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to economism and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Ethics of Development: From Economism to Human Development
Ethics is a global concern in an increasingly interconnected global economy. This text examines the key issues confronting us in relation to the meanings and nature of development as an ethical category.
D. Gasper, 2004
2
A Caricature of Marxism and Imperialist Economism
This translation is taken from Volume 23 of V.I. Lenin's "Collected Works" in 45 volumes.
V.I. Lenin, 2008
3
Enter economism, exit politics: experts, economic policy and ...
Teivo Teivainen explores the redefinition of the boundaries of the economic and the political spheres.
Teivo Teivainen, 2002
4
Capitalist Development and Economism in East Asia: The Rise ...
Taking a conceptual approach, this book studies the economic development of the four East Asian economies since 1950. This work will be of interest to scholars in East Asian economics, and those interested in modern economic development.
Kui-Wai Li, 2003
5
Neo-liberalism and the Rise of Radical Economism
By contrasting neo-liberalism with liberal and more succinctly classical-medieval thought, this thesis expose this movement as a form of radical economism, the unlimited application of economic rationality to an increasingly larger field.
André Munro, 2006
6
The Earthist Challenge to Economism: A Theological Critique ...
Western society moved from a period in which Christianity was the dominant cultural force to one of nationalism, and there now exists a culture in which the economy is dominant. This book examines the earthist challenge to economism.
John B. Cobb, 1999
7
From Complicity to Encounter: The Church and the Culture of ...
Presents a thoughtful and disturbing critique of Western culture obsessed by the "culture of economism," in which economic causes or factors become the main source of cultural meanings and values, thus perpetrating inequality, injustice, ...
Jane Collier, Fr. Rafael Esteban, 1999
8
Antonio Gramsci: Contemporary applications
Today economism is no longer a defense in the traditional sense of protecting working-class identity, but instead poses a fundamental obstacle to the articulation of workers' struggles to the ensemble of the new anticapitalist social movements ...
James Martin, 2002
9
Developing Ecological Consciousness: The End of Separation
Economism as a Pseudo-Religion? Economism with its associated beliefs has become so fully integrated into US. culture (and increasingly into global culture) that it now appears to act as a kind of pseudo-religion. Yes, strange as it may ...
Christopher Uhl, 2013
10
Lenin and the Bolshevik Party: A Reply to Tony Cliff
... the heart and soul of the critique of Economism which Lenin presented. He did not at all share Tony Cliff's confusion. Even in the writings of Lenin which Cliff quotes, Lenin separates himself from Cliff's superficial critique of Economism ...
Bruce Landau, 2002

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ECONOMISM»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term economism is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Georg Lukacs: Lessons for struggle today
The position is that vulgar Marxist economism denies that violence has a place in the transition from one economic system to another. It bases ... «Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal, Jul 15»
2
House passes 'respect for Greece' resolution
... are dominant, rather than a Europe dominated by expediencies and an economism serving the interests of extra-institutional power centres.”. «Cyprus Mail, Jul 15»
3
Laudato Sii: Why This Conservative Looks Forward to the Letter on …
Technology that dominates human beings deprives them of their humanity. The pride that it generates has created an impossible economism in ... «Catholic Online, May 15»
4
'The Dutch government needs to do more cost benefit analyses'
mathijs bouman What Jesse Klaver, newly-appointed GroenLinks leader, calls 'economism' could well be the life-line of compassion in society ... «DutchNews.nl, May 15»
5
Syndicalism and taking power
Lenin argued that economism is a particular variant of a larger tendency that exists in revolutionary movements, and which must be combatted ... «Socialist Worker Online, May 15»
6
Chris Ramsey: Why plans to scrap the Human Rights Act are only …
Sitting back and allowing the vulnerable to struggle even more is the worst kind of economism. For every revolutionary, there are so many ... «CommonSpace, May 15»
7
Contradictions of syndicalism
He asks, "Did syndicalism advocate a narrow focus on merely economic issues ('economism') or did they have unrealistic expectations of the ... «Socialist Worker Online, May 15»
8
Mudguard: the time-honoured role of the Labour Party.
Labour's failure to get the votes of its natural working-class constituency is due to its ”economism” and the perception that it has historically ... «Village, May 15»
9
Sanders' dodge on Black Lives Matter
... unemployment in Baltimore to dodge talking about police brutality, and turn the conversation to his preferred economism. Serving as a prime ... «Socialist Worker Online, May 15»
10
Misunderstanding syndicalism
... a narrow focus on merely economic issues ("economism") or did they have unrealistic expectations of the political role unionism could play? «Socialist Worker Online, Apr 15»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Economism [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/economism>. May 2024 ».
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