market economy
noun
: an economy in which most goods and services are produced and distributed through free markets
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Leading economists such as Dani Rodrik at Harvard and Daron Acemoglu at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s have started to challenge the prevailing orthodoxy that such jobs are an inevitable by-product of a well-functioning market economy.
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Daniel Chandler, TIME, 14 May 2024
No market economy even approximates a competitive ideal of perfect competition, perfect information, and perfect risk and capital markets.
—Joseph E. Stiglitz, Fortune, 12 May 2024
The club believes in individual responsibility, personal freedoms, limited government, a market economy, low taxes and strong national defense.
—Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Feb. 2024
That book, another of Oyeyemi’s meta-textual inventions, reflects the contradictions of a country teetering between Communism and a market economy.
—Jennifer Wilson, The New Yorker, 3 Mar. 2024
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Daniel Chandler, TIME, 14 May 2024
No market economy even approximates a competitive ideal of perfect competition, perfect information, and perfect risk and capital markets.
—Joseph E. Stiglitz, Fortune, 12 May 2024
The club believes in individual responsibility, personal freedoms, limited government, a market economy, low taxes and strong national defense.
—Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Feb. 2024
That book, another of Oyeyemi’s meta-textual inventions, reflects the contradictions of a country teetering between Communism and a market economy.
—Jennifer Wilson, The New Yorker, 3 Mar. 2024
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“Market economy.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/market%20economy. Accessed 7 Jun. 2024.
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