plutonomyとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

plutonomy (countable and uncountable, plural plutonomies)

1. (sometimes derogatory) The study of the production and distribution of wealth, or a society seen as dominated by such concerns. [from 19th c.]
   • 1866, Frederic Harrison, “Industrial Co-operation”, in The Fortnightly Review, volume III, page 499:

     On this side it [Socialism] is a crude compromise between the claims of labour and of capital — the hybrid child of Plutonomy and Communism.

   • 2015, Martin Ford, The Rise of the Robots, Oneworld, →ISBN, page 198:

     The [Citigroup] analysts argued that the United States was evolving into a “plutonomy”—a top-heavy economic system where growth is driven primarily by a tiny, prosperous elite who consume an ever larger fraction of everything the economy produces.

   • 2018, Oliver Bullough, chapter 17, in Moneyland, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 240:

     Since his [Ajay Kapur's] very first paper in 2005—and he has kept publishing them, through a series of different employers—he has highlighted the fact that, in its essence, plutonomy is about inequality.

派生語

• plutonomist

関連する語

• plutocracy
• plutocrat
• plutonomic

参照

• “plutonomy”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000. (2006)