Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Economic totalitarianism

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the debate was: List on today's copyright problems as a copyright violation (from here) Jude (talk,email) 10:31, 22 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Economic totalitarianism

Original Research. Totalitarianism is a concept used in political science, economic totalitarianism is not. Tazmaniacs 22:12, 19 May 2006 (UTC)

• Delete per nom. Intangible 22:44, 19 May 2006 (UTC)
• Keep >40 hits on Google Scholar. >50 hits on Google Book. One of the book hits is Capitalism and Freedom by Milton Friedman Not a neologism, was used in testimony before the U.S. Congress in 1948.[1]. Apparently an infrequently used, legitimate term of economic discussion. That it may not be used in political science is not relavant to whether it is a legitimate term in economics. GRBerry 02:40, 20 May 2006 (UTC)
• Delete, comparable to Irrational exuberance (finance), but without the "memorability". Or possibly merge to Corporate fascism. Ewlyahoocom 21:33, 20 May 2006 (UTC)
• Keep per GRBerry who has shown that this is not OR. Hence, I see no reason to remove economic concepts from a reference work. -- JJay 13:50, 21 May 2006 (UTC)
  • Comment. Google is not a substitute for library work. However, thanks for quoting Friedman's book, I was looking for the publication date for others reasons! In any cases, although Friedman may have anecdotically used it, "economic totalitarianism" is not a concept used neither by political scientists nor by economists. As User: Ewlyahoocom points out, it is quite comparable to making an article on Alan Greenspan's "irrational exuberance", without the "memorability". If you do some library work on the (political) concept of totalitarianism, you will see that "economic totalitarianism" is necessarily an oxymoron: totalitarianism relates to the state's control on every single part of human culture and society, including of course individuals' psychic lives. "Economic totalitarianism", as used by Friedman, is simply a polemic word to argue against planned economy and the Soviet Union (which is fair game, but is far from being the same of defining it as a political concept). Tazmaniacs 20:01, 21 May 2006 (UTC)
  • If a merge is proposed, it should certainly not be done with "corporate fascism" (which redirects to corporatism) but to totalitarianism ! (Interestingly enough, this proposition to merge it with "fascism" would lead to the exact opposite use of the term that Friedman had reserved for it, that it is an anticommunist term!) Tazmaniacs 20:02, 21 May 2006 (UTC)
• Delete as per above. No citations, looks like original research, not an accepted term in economics. Homey 01:06, 22 May 2006 (UTC)
• Delete, as far as I can tell, it's a word-for-word copyright violation from here. Jude (talk,email) 09:57, 22 May 2006 (UTC)

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.