| 释义 |
stagnationist, a. and n. Chiefly Econ.|stægˈneɪʃənɪst|
[f. stagnation + -ist.]
A. adj. Characterized by stagnation; promoting stagnation.
B. n. One who advocates or forecasts stagnation.
1951A. Koestler Age of Longing v. 103 After some twenty million factory workers..had sent in resolutions calling for death to the ‘stagnationist vermin’, Edwards published another book. 1958Listener 10 July 57/2 Mr. Nicholson..joins the ranks of the ‘stagnationists’—those who would preserve forms when the functions have decayed. 1964Economist 25 July 332/1 Consumption has moved into a stagnationist stage of the cycle. 1972Hunt & Sherman Economics i. vi. 84 Marx..was not a ‘stagnationist’—that is, he did not believe capitalism would suffer one long depression or that mass unemployment at high levels would last forever. |