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/tɛkˈnɒkɹəsi/
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tɛkˈnɒkɹəsi
Noun
A system of governance where people who are skilled or proficient govern in their respective areas of expertise.
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When scientific imagination and knowledge of Nature's Laws are substituted in our economics for chance, mystery, and magic;[…] when this economic childish irrationality is sanely substituted by organized Science, Technology, and specialized Skill co-ordinated in National Industrial Management, then will begin real civilization, the Age of Social Sanity, — Technocracy.
Macron may be the best of the existing system, but his politics is located within the liberal-democratic coordinates of the enlightened technocracy.
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a form of government in which scientists and technical experts are in control
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technocracy was described as that society in which those who govern justify themselves by appeal to technical experts who justify themselves by appeal to scientific forms of knowledge