economism
Money explains everything
Economism is the tendency to reduce political, social, or moral questions to economic terms—treating economic factors as the primary or only meaningful lens for understanding human affairs.
Critics use the term pejoratively to describe an overreliance on market logic or GDP metrics at the expense of other values: The administration's economism ignores environmental and social costs.
In Marxist contexts, economism specifically refers to the error of focusing workers' struggles on wages and conditions rather than broader revolutionary goals.
Stripping complexity unfairly
- determinismDoctrine of causal necessity
- materialismPrioritizing goods over spirit
- quantificationExpressing something numerically
- mechanisticViewing systems as machines
reductive · instrumentalism · cost-benefit · commodification · financialization · marketization · technocratic · positivism
Pro-market, anti-regulation ideology
- laissez-faireNoninterference in commerce
- free-marketUnregulated private exchange
- monetarismEconomic focus on currency regulation
- supply-sideProduction-centered economic theory
Keynesianism · capitalism · socialism · mercantilism · protectionism · globalization · libertarianism · statism
Denying personhood to others
- exploitationSelfish use of others
- alienationState of being isolated
- inequalityUnequal distribution of resources
- commodificationTransforming into sellable goods
consumerism · marketization · reification · technocracy · depoliticization · austerity · privatization · deregulation
oversimplification
Stripping complexity unfairly
- determinismDoctrine of causal necessity
- materialismPrioritizing goods over spirit
- quantificationExpressing something numerically
mechanistic · reductive · instrumentalism · cost-benefit · commodification · financialization · marketization · technocratic · positivism · atomistic
neoliberalism
Pro-market, anti-regulation ideology
- laissez-faireNoninterference in commerce
- free-marketUnregulated private exchange
- monetarismEconomic focus on currency regulation
supply-side · Keynesianism · capitalism · socialism · mercantilism · protectionism · globalization · libertarianism · statism · collectivism
dehumanization
Denying personhood to others
- exploitationSelfish use of others
- alienationState of being isolated
- inequalityUnequal distribution of resources
commodification · consumerism · marketization · reification · technocracy · depoliticization · austerity · privatization · deregulation · externalities
fiscal
Of public revenue
- monetaryOf or about currency
- regulationOfficial rules governing conduct
- legislationOfficial enactment of statutes
subsidy · tariff · budget · deficit · surplus · taxation · spending · welfare · austerity · privatization
economismhumanism
Philosophy prioritizing earthly reason
spiritualism · environmentalism · communitarianism · anti-materialism · personalism
- economic sanctionPunitive limits on commerce
- economic powerInfluence through wealth
- economic justiceFair allocation of resources
- economic indicatorsData measuring financial health
- economic boomSustained period of growth
- economic disparitiesUnequal distribution of wealth
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