developmentalismn.
/dᵻˌvɛləpˈmɛntl̩ɪz(ə)m/, U.S. /dəˌvɛləpˈmɛn(t)lˌɪz(ə)m/ 1. Any of various philosophical or theological doctrines or schools of thought concerned with development (in various senses); esp. those which regard the nature of something as a result of gradual development, rather than being innate or predetermined.
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1848 Douglas Jerrold's Shilling Mag. 7 329 Eclecticism, Developmentalism, are a metaphysical half-way-house for the academical and constitutional.
1868 Anthropol. Rev. 6 328 The author has the merit of repudiating Darwinism and developmentalism, which is a point of great weight from so eminent a zoologist.
1934 Mind 43 393 Bartlett's notion of a ‘Schema’..incorporates developmentalism.
1987 Times Lit. Suppl. 18 Dec. 1391/4 What gave the revival of developmentalism in the 1860s its distinctive character..was its casting of the concept of the rise of civilization.
2003 Isis 94 1 Darwin's scheme was the first to incorporate biological evolution, associationist psychology, evolutionary geology, and cosmological developmentalism.
2. An economic policy concerned with improving the economy, and thus national autonomy, of an underdeveloped country by fostering the development of dynamic internal markets through such means as imposing high tariffs on imported goods.
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society > trade and finance > management of money > management of national resources > [noun] > political economy > an economic policy > specific policies and actions
protection1719
co-operation1817
tariff-reform1859
monetary union1866
border protection1875
rationalization1875
tariffication1892
tariffade1904
inflationism1919
NEP1923
war communism1928
voodoo economics1930
substantivism1931
sterilization1938
deficit spending1941
deficit financing1943
tax-and-spend1956
indexation1960
stop-go1964
incomes policy1965
scala mobile1965
quantitative easing1966
jawboning1969
Nixonomics1969
developmentalism1970
degrowth1971
inflation-proofing1973
NEB1973
dollarization1982
fiscal engineering1982
Rogernomics1985
1970 Corpus Christi (Texas) Caller-Times 17 Oct. a8/1 Ferrer..is the leading exponent in the Levingston government of an opposing point of view, called desarrollismo or developmentalism. This approach would reduce the role of foreign investment and would be more favorable to Argentine-owned industry.
1973 R. J. Alexander Lat. Amer. Polit. Parties Introd. xxi The philosophy of ‘developmentalism’..has become an integral part of the political program of most of the Latin American parties of the Left.
1987 A. A. Yewangoe Theologia Crucis in Asia 279 Developmentalism became synonymous with reformism and modernization.
2002 Foreign Policy July 64/1 [Economic] stagnation resulted in the collapse of ‘developmentalism’—the notion that every nation could catch up economically if the state took appropriate action—which was the principal ideological claim of the Old Left movements then in power.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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