economicide
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The destruction of an economic system by replacing it with a market economy.
Example Sentences
- "Wester privatization and collectivization both lead to economicide, or the destruction of the economic basis of reciprocity."
- "On the one hand, such an approach emphasizes the destructive effects of modernity, which include the "homeless mind" psychological syndrome (Berger, Berger, & Kellner, 1974); processes of ethnocide, defined by Clastres (1988) as cultural genocide; and processes of economicide — the replacement of traditional economic structures and mechanisms by modern market rules (Temple, 1988)."
- "In this view, NGOs are modernizers and destroyers of local economies which were once based on age-old systems of reciprocity, into which NGOs introduce Western values to local communities and bring about a process of 'economicide'."
- "Thus it was possible to commit genocide by means of economicide and this, in turn, was the direct result of state planning."
- "Bolivian peasant leader and congressman Evo Morales condemned the FTAA as a “reproduction of savage capitalism” that would result in “economicide” for small producers."
- "Hymies and guineas used menticide, economicide, crime, agitcide, agricide, and other things."