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plutonomy|pluːˈtɒnəmɪ|
[f. Gr. πλοῦτος wealth, riches + -νοµία arrangement; after economy. So F. plutonomie.]
The science of the production and distribution of wealth; political economy.
1851J. M. Ludlow Chr. Socialism 24 [Political economy] confessing its own limited nature by the mouth of its greatest exponent—by its own showing a mere plutonomy. 1862T. Shorter in Weldon's Regr. Aug. 9 Plutonomy, as it has been designated, is regarded by Mr. Ruskin as a base or bastard science. 1900Daily News 9 Feb. 4/6 Plutonomy is a more accurate name, but the man in the street..would be apt to think it pedantic.
So plutonomic |pluːtəʊˈnɒmɪk| a., pertaining to plutonomy, politico-economic; plutonomist |pluːˈtɒnəmɪst|, one versed in plutonomy, a political economist.
1851J. M. Ludlow Chr. Socialism 28 Some of the worst culprits in this respect are precisely those plutonomists. 1860― in Macm. Mag. May 51 Those plutonomic doctrines which are erected into a faith for states or for individuals, and which tend to supplant everywhere duty by interest. 1888Pall Mall G. 31 Mar. 2/2 Fundamental and eternal differences of plutonomic opinion forbid it [federation]. 1896F. Harrison in 19th Cent. Dec. 972 The terms and dogmas of the older plutonomists. |