Productivism

Arabic translation: الإنتاجوية

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English term or phrase:Productivism
Arabic translation:الإنتاجوية
Entered by: Shazly

12:27 Oct 15, 2004
English to Arabic translations [Non-PRO]
Agriculture
English term or phrase: Productivism
focus on production only with no consideration to any other factor
Lyes Bechkour
France
Local time: 14:48
الإنتاجنية أو الإنتاجوية
Explanation:
الهوس بالإنتاج
فلسفة التركيز على الإنتاج

Productivism is the (purported) ideology that measurable economic productivity and growth is the purpose of human organization and perhaps the purpose of life itself. It is a corollary to the related ideas of consumerism - which critics say promotes waste - and scientism - acceptance of certain measures or models of reality that are divorced from human experience, as being more 'real' than the experience itself.
It is a pejorative term that is rarely acceptable to the individuals or ideologies it is purported to describe, although these same individuals and ideologies very often use phrases like "productivity", "growth", "economic sense" and "common sense" as if there was no argument against these concepts. Alan Greenspan and G. W. Bush have been criticized for productivism, although it is difficult to find any ruler or central banker in the modern world who has not been accused of favoring measurable growth factors over un-measurable ones. Critics of the idea of 'productivism' claim that it is up to the electorate, worker and purchaser to put values on their free time and decide whether to convert time or money to production or to consumption.
According to those who use the term 'productivism', the difference between themselves and the promoters of conventional neoclassical economics is that a productivist does not and cannot believe in the idea of "uneconomic growth", i.e. the productivist believes all growth is good, while the critic of productivism believes it can be more like cancer in a living thing, measurably growing but interfering with life processes.

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Shazly
Egypt
Local time: 15:48
Grading comment
thanks for the suggestion, I think I will keep الإنتاجويةas it is about a spoecified term and i don't see any other solution.
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Summary of answers provided
5 +3الإنتاجية
Sabry Hameed
3 +2نظرية أولوية الانتاجية
Nesrin
1 +3الإنتاجنية أو الإنتاجوية
Shazly


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14 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +3
productivism
الإنتاجية


Explanation:
الإنتاجية

Sabry Hameed
Egypt
Local time: 15:48
Works in field
Native speaker of: Arabic

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Saleh Ayyub: التركيز على الإنتاج
7 hrs
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agree  Dr. Wathib Jabouri
8 hrs
  -> thanks

agree  Spring2007 (X)
3 days 19 hrs
  -> thanks
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3 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +2
productivism
نظرية أولوية الانتاجية


Explanation:
I think it's ok to use more than one word, to make sure your translation is unequivocal. الانتاجوية ... I don't know, I don't think readers will really understand what you're on about.
I based my suggestion نظرية أولوية الانتاجية on the following definition: "Productivism is the (purported) ideology that measurable economic productivity and growth is the purpose of human organization and perhaps the purpose of life itself." There may be a better and more established way of putting it though.

Nesrin
United Kingdom
Local time: 13:48
Works in field
Native speaker of: Arabic
PRO pts in category: 4

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Stephen Franke: Tamaam wa nuS.
2 hrs

agree  .... (X)
2 days 17 hrs
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6 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 1/5Answerer confidence 1/5 peer agreement (net): +3
الإنتاجنية أو الإنتاجوية


Explanation:
الهوس بالإنتاج
فلسفة التركيز على الإنتاج

Productivism is the (purported) ideology that measurable economic productivity and growth is the purpose of human organization and perhaps the purpose of life itself. It is a corollary to the related ideas of consumerism - which critics say promotes waste - and scientism - acceptance of certain measures or models of reality that are divorced from human experience, as being more 'real' than the experience itself.
It is a pejorative term that is rarely acceptable to the individuals or ideologies it is purported to describe, although these same individuals and ideologies very often use phrases like "productivity", "growth", "economic sense" and "common sense" as if there was no argument against these concepts. Alan Greenspan and G. W. Bush have been criticized for productivism, although it is difficult to find any ruler or central banker in the modern world who has not been accused of favoring measurable growth factors over un-measurable ones. Critics of the idea of 'productivism' claim that it is up to the electorate, worker and purchaser to put values on their free time and decide whether to convert time or money to production or to consumption.
According to those who use the term 'productivism', the difference between themselves and the promoters of conventional neoclassical economics is that a productivist does not and cannot believe in the idea of "uneconomic growth", i.e. the productivist believes all growth is good, while the critic of productivism believes it can be more like cancer in a living thing, measurably growing but interfering with life processes.



Shazly
Egypt
Local time: 15:48
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in ArabicArabic
PRO pts in category: 40
Grading comment
thanks for the suggestion, I think I will keep الإنتاجويةas it is about a spoecified term and i don't see any other solution.

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Nesrin: فلسفة التركيز على الإنتاج is another good option
12 hrs

agree  Sam Shalalo
1 day 8 hrs

agree  Stephen Franke
9 days
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