Interventionism
Encyclopedia
Interventionism may refer to:
- Interventionism (politics)Interventionism (politics)Interventionism is a term for a policy of non-defensive activity undertaken by a nation-state, or other geo-political jurisdiction of a lesser or greater nature, to manipulate an economy or society...
is a political term for significant activity undertaken by a state to influence something not directly under its control. - Economic interventionismEconomic interventionismEconomic interventionism is an action taken by a government in a market economy or market-oriented mixed economy, beyond the basic regulation of fraud and enforcement of contracts, in an effort to affect its own economy...
is any activity, beyond the basic regulation of fraud, undertaken by a central government in an effort to affect a country's economy. - Interventionism (medicine)Interventionism (medicine)Interventionism, when discussing the practice of medicine, is generally a derogatory term used by critics of a medical model in which patients are viewed as passive recipients receiving external treatments provided by the physician that have the effect of prolonging life, or at least of providing a...
is also a medical term in which patients are viewed as passive recipients receiving external treatments that have the effect of prolonging life.