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market economy
[ mahr-kit i-kon-uh-mee ]
noun
- a capitalistic economic system in which there is free competition and prices are determined by the interaction of supply and demand.
market economy
- An economy in which the greater part of production, distribution , and exchange is controlled by individuals and privately owned corporations rather than by the government, and in which government interference in the market is minimal. Although a total market economy is probably only theoretically possible (because it would exclude taxation and regulation of any kind), capitalist economies approximate it and socialist economies are antithetical to it ( see capitalism and socialism ). Market economies are also called free economies, free markets , or free enterprise systems.
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Origin of market economy1
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A modern market economy like the UK depends on a basic assumption of truthfulness, points out Dr David Hugh-Jones, a social scientist formerly based at the University of East Anglia.
When considering a president's influence on the economy, it's important to recognize that we have a market economy, said Michael Walden, a Reynolds Distinguished Professor Emeritus at North Carolina State University.
"We are finally seeing investments and wages rising, and we have a chance to go back to a normal market economy," he says.
Clean hydrogen is enormously expensive, with prices far too high to compete against fossil fuels in a competitive market economy.
"Despite many gloomy predictions, the world avoided a recession, the banking system proved largely resilient, and major emerging market economies did not suffer sudden stops," the IMF said.
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