investorism

English

Etymology

investor +‎ -ism

Noun

investorism (uncountable)

1. An ideology that stresses the importance of investment for the health of the economy.
   • 1979, A. Janell Anderson, Decisionmaking in the California P.U.C, page 57:

     Certainly for the foreseeable future the commission will be concerned with the contemporary issues of the day — consumerism, environmentalism, inflation, and now investorism. The new investorism comes as a result of investors' feeling that the PUC has given too much attention to consumers in the past.

   • 2009, Karen Ho, Liquidated: An Ethnography of Wall Street, →ISBN, page 180:

     Contrary to mainstream Wall Street assumptions, it was the state that catalyzed both mass investment and investorism during the First World War through the mass selling of Liberty war bonds to some 30 million middle-class Americans.

   • 2012, Thomas Welskopp, Alan Lessoff, Fractured Modernity, →ISBN:

     Indeed historian Julia Ott has shown how the federal government's impetus for the investing craze (known as “investorism”) built upon such an ideology.