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I'm not sure I get your point, care to elaborate?

• chris_wot 10y ago
  He's wrong, that's not correct. In fact it comes from "state", statism is a term referring to the actions of a highly centralised government who handle economic planning and controls. "Statism" is a term that has been around since the 1850s, but "statistics" is a term coined by Gottfried Aschenwall in the late 1770s.
  • apathy 10y ago
    Well, I didn't claim to be a trained historian, which is probably the correct training for this type of work. Based on your temporal evidence, I must concede the point. However, I did not actually pull this straight out of my ass: http://www.thefreedictionary.com/statist http://www.thefreedictionary.com/statist Thanks for the history lesson (seriously). I learned from it.
• openfuture 10y ago
  stat·ism ˈstādˌizəm/ noun noun: statism a political system in which the state has substantial centralized control over social and economic affairs. "the rise of authoritarian statism"