单词 | free market |
释义 | free marketn. A market (for a particular commodity, etc.) in which prices are not fixed or regulated; (chiefly with the) an economic system in which prices are determined by unrestricted competition between privately owned businesses. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > management of money > management of national resources > [noun] > political economy > types of economic system free market1642 peasant economy1883 agriculturism1885 money economy1888 price system1889 external economy1890 peace economy1905 war economy1919 planned economy1924 market economy1929 circular economy1932 managed economy1932 mixed economy1936 market socialism1939 plural economy1939 market capitalism1949 external diseconomy1952 siege economy1962 knowledge economy1967 linear economy1968 EMU1969 wage economy1971 grey economy1977 EMS1978 enterprise culture1979 new economy1981 tiger1981 share economy1983 gig economy2009 1642 H. Parker Vintners Answer 23 The Vintners might bargain at pleasure, they had an open and free market, and commonly they bought under the prices set, and they pleased themselves with a free choice. 1691 D. North Disc. Trade Pref. sig. B Not one of them will endure to be under a force, to Sell, or Let their own Estates at lower rates, than the free Market of things will produce. 1721 C. King Brit. Merchant III. 57 The King of Portugal has granted the Queen a free Market for all the Woollen Manufactures of her Subjects. 1819 Times 26 Mar. 2/4 To the poor themselves it would be an inestimable advantage to find a free market open to their labour, the price of which was now depressed. 1891 Q. Jrnl. Econ. 5 211 He sells his crop without let or hindrance in what is practically a free market. 1915 Q. Jrnl. Econ. 29 712 Enough instances could be easily cited to show the all-pervading economic influence of standards of value contrary to those of the free market. 1947 D. Thomas Let. 11 Apr. (1987) 622 The Bank gives you nine hundred lire for a pound; the Free Market, as it is known, gives you eighteen hundred. 1969 A. G. Frank Lat. Amer. (1970) x. 177 The thesis that a free market equalizes incomes..among its sectors is a myth that was invented by the rich while they were exploiting the poor. 2002 New Statesman 25 Nov. 20/2 It did not occur to these breathless missionaries of the free market that worldwide industrialisation might trigger a new and dangerous kind of conflict. Compounds C1. General attributive. ΚΠ 1907 Westm. Gaz. 5 Apr. 3/2 What Preferentialists ask from the masses in England is a price above the free-market price. 1941 Univ. Chicago Law Rev. 8 203 Henry Wallace..has naturally been unable to live comfortably with the free-market liberalism which was once his. 1984 Listener 23 Aug. 19/2 Washington maintains that free-market economics, rather than intervention by government, is a major factor in controlling birth rate. 2006 Indianapolis Star 25 Aug. (State ed.) a12/5 Her Washington-based free-market think tank..has begun educating Americans on the massive belly flop that is state-sponsored health care. C2. free-market fundamentalism n. Political Economy the economic doctrine that competition within a free market will produce the best possible economic and social conditions; adherence to this doctrine. ΚΠ 1971 New Society 18 Feb. 279/1 The free market fundamentalism, which is now the ruling faith for the Conservative Party. 1997 Wall St. Jrnl. (Electronic ed.) 24 Nov. 10 Estonia's free-market fundamentalism and Latvia's central position in the middle of the region had drawn away foreign capital [sc. from Lithuania]. 2014 S. A. Shapiro & J. P. Tomain Achieving Democracy 72 After a generation of free-market fundamentalism, progressives face an uphill struggle in achieving a return to democratic capitalism. free-market fundamentalist n. and adj. Political Economy (a) n. an adherent or advocate of free-market fundamentalism; (b) adj. of or relating to free-market fundamentalism. ΚΠ 1971 Times 11 Oct. 21/1 It is premature for anyone other than a free market fundamentalist—a Friedmanite or a Powellite—to pass a verdict at this stage. 1989 Economist 8 July 35/3 Negotiations did not begin in earnest until Mr. Yeutter took a less free-market fundamentalist stance than his predecessor. 2004 P. Ball Crit. Mass (2005) ix. 276 Free-market fundamentalists argue that total non-interventionism is the best way to let the economy reach equilibrium. 2014 R. Lang New Tunisian Cinema ix. 267 The film's narrative offers..a harsh indictment not only of Ben Ali's regime.., but of the free-market fundamentalist ideology of capitalist globalization as well. Derivatives ˌfree ˈmarketer n. = free marketeer n. ΚΠ 1956 N.Y. Times 15 Jan. iv. 2/1 Let the stanchest free marketer and rugged individualist tackle it [sc. the farm problem]. 1984 H. Ball Controlling Regulatory Sprawl v. 121 Decisions may be made by White House political actors above the free marketers in OIRA. 2006 Independent (Nexis) 16 Jan. 31 Free marketers repelled by the Tories' enthusiasm for..sanguinary penal policies. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1642 |
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