technocracy
English
Etymology
techno- (“technical”, “technicians”) + -cracy (“rule by”), attributed to W.H. Smyth.[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tɛkˈnɒkɹəsi/
Noun
technocracy (countable and uncountable, plural technocracies)
- A system of governance where people who are skilled or proficient govern in their respective areas of expertise.
- 1919, William Henry Smyth, Technocracy, first, second and third series, published 1921, page 20:
- When scientific imagination and knowledge of Nature's Laws are substituted in our economics for chance, mystery, and magic; […] when this economic childish irrationality is sanely substituted by organized Science, Technology, and specialized Skill co-ordinated in National Industrial Management, then will begin real civilization, the Age of Social Sanity, — Technocracy.
- 2018 December 17, Slavoj Žižek, “The yellow vest protesters revolting against centrism mean well – but their left wing populism won’t change French politics”, in The Independent:
- Macron may be the best of the existing system, but his politics is located within the liberal-democratic coordinates of the enlightened technocracy.
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Related terms
- technocrat
- technocratic
Translations
a system of governance where people who are skilled or proficient govern in their respective areas of expertise
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References
- William Henry Smyth (1919), “‘Technocracy’—Ways and Means to Gain Industrial Democracy”, in Technocracy, first, second and third series (in English), published 1921
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