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technicism
technicismA belief that technocracy is desirable or inevitable. Also a broad social movement, especially influential in the United States during the early 20th century (the Technocracy Movement), calling for the elimination of the price system in favour of the government of industry and society by scientific or engineering principles. See also technocracy.
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