free marketeering

Definitions

Belief in a free market model of economy; the exploitation of a market in which trade is subject to little or no regulation by government.

uncountable

Examples

“1990, “The 1990 Inkatha Declaration” in Mangosuthu Buthelezi, South Africa: My Vision of the Future, New York: St. Martin’s Press⟳, p. 141, There shall be consultative mechanisms set⟳ up in which organised agriculture, mining, commerce, banking and industry participates to advise⟳ the Government on the best ways to avoid⟳ the dangers of free marketeering and exploitation on the one hand and the dangers of State control⟳ that curbs productivity on the other hand.”

“[…] what the British and American leaders will be attempting at the G-20 conference […] will be to begin⟳ building a new global financial system that curbs the rampant and often conscienceless free-marketeering of the past 20 years with a new sense⟳ of accountability and restraint […]”

“Forbes was once the business magazine of the high-trouser country-club set⟳, a rock of free marketeering and bible of mid-size company executives, worth several billion dollars.”

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