SCOTT, HOWARD

an American engineer and economist who was instrumental in the development of technocracy: government by technologists, specifically, a scheme for supplanting the existing political and social order with one directed by scientists and engineers. Technocracy developed as a social reform program after World War I (1918) and was most popular in the early 1930s and again later in the 1940s. —PDC Volume 4 Approved Glossary

(1890-1970) American engineer and one of the leading spokesmen for technocracy, a theory and movement, prominent around 1932, advocating control of industrial resources, reform of financial institutions, and reorganization of the social system, based on the findings of technologists and engineers.an American engineer and economist who was instrumental in the development of technocracy government by technologists, specifically, a scheme for supplanting the existing political and social order with one directed by scientists and engineers. Technocracy developed as a social reform program after World War I (1918) and was most popular in the early 1930s and again later in the 1940s.