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The '''Technocracy Study Course''' is a book published by Technocracy Incorporated in 1934 that formed the basis of the [[Technocracy movement]]. The [[Technical Alliance]] was formed in conjunction with the [[Industrial Engineering]] Department at [[Columbia University]], and began an empirical analysis of production and employment in North America in energy units. This information was then published as the Technocracy Study Course.

The term 'technology'“technocracy,” becamecoined widelyin used1919, aftercame into vogue in the early-twentieth-century1930s riseas of "technocracyrational," acentralized movementplanning thatcame promotedto technicalbe superiorityseen byas seekingthe toantidote replacefor the subjectivitywoes of politics by the assumed objectivity of engineeringDepression.<ref>{{cite web

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}}</ref>The term “technocracy,” coined in 1919, came into vogue in the 1930s as rational, centralized planning came to be seen as the antidote for the woes of the Depression.<ref>{{cite web

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