How to Use market economy in a Sentence

market economy

noun
  • The city wants to avoid that, Schutte said, and embrace a free-market economy.
    Aubrey Wieber, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Nov. 2019
  • If producing more crops drove down farm prices and wrecked the land, well, that was just how the market economy worked.
    Kevin Baker, Harper's magazine, 10 May 2019
  • Behind all of this, in a market economy there’s sort of a basic glitch.
    Nicole Goodkind, CNN, 13 Mar. 2023
  • In the past few years, the government has steered away from the market economy and cracked down on some industries.
    New York Times, 10 June 2022
  • The game can sell items to players and run a market economy where players sell amongst themselves.
    Clem Chambers, Forbes, 8 Nov. 2021
  • The head of a Yaroslavl factory would talk about changes as the country moved toward a market economy.
    Anton Troianovski, New York Times, 5 Mar. 2020
  • Yet China is not a market economy and, on its present course, never will be.
    The Economist, 1 Mar. 2018
  • Diverse perspectives on the role of the central bank in a free-market economy should be welcome on the Fed board.
    Judy Shelton, WSJ, 4 May 2021
  • How could such a clear shortage persist for three decades in a market economy?
    Nicolás Rivero, Quartz, 10 Nov. 2021
  • The ban had been in force since 1979, the early years of Sri Lanka embracing an open market economy.
    Bharatha Mallawarachi, The Seattle Times, 15 Jan. 2018
  • It’s time to leave behind the tired narrative that pits people against the market economy.
    NBC News, 29 Apr. 2020
  • At the start of the year, prices for the gas called LPG roughly doubled as the government moved away from price controls as part of efforts to move to a market economy.
    Jim Heintz, ajc, 5 Jan. 2022
  • Unions became synonymous with waste and sludge that have no place in a free-market economy.
    Lila MacLellan, Quartz at Work, 16 Sep. 2019
  • And her home country made the transition from communism to a market economy in the 1990s.
    The Economist, 12 Sep. 2019
  • That is so because prices are the way that the market economy organizes itself.
    John Tamny, Forbes, 18 Dec. 2022
  • Our tasting of the tree of a market economy does not actually require us to know how the tree was planted.
    David L. Bahnsen, National Review, 11 Nov. 2021
  • This was true in the past, when our minds evolved, but is no longer true in our market economy, where there can be growth that benefits everyone.
    WSJ, 22 Feb. 2022
  • The pursuit of market economy status has been a long-term strategic goal for China...
    James Freeman, WSJ, 18 June 2019
  • But many emerging market economies are in worse shape because of rising debt bills and slumping demand for their exports.
    David J. Lynch, Washington Post, 6 Apr. 2023
  • It was done in by cynicism, exhaustion and the inevitable comparisons with the prosperous market economies of the West.
    Will Englund, Washington Post, 26 Oct. 2017
  • Due to the market economy, people see themselves as consumers and the world outside of them as producers.
    Laura Rysman, WSJ, 9 Sep. 2022
  • More capital has been coming to the U.S. in the sense that emerging-market economies—people around the world who are wealthier are looking for safe places to invest.
    Nick Timiraos, WSJ, 11 July 2018
  • The fundamentals are now in place for a market economy to work and create value.
    Sean McGowan, STAT, 6 Mar. 2020
  • At the start of the year, prices for the gas called LPG roughly doubled as the government moved away from price controls — part of efforts to transition to a market economy.
    Fox News, 6 Jan. 2022
  • Some of these legal tussles are part of the transition to a modern market economy.
    The Economist, 8 June 2019
  • The law of diminishing returns kicks in, a force as immutable in theater as in a market economy.
    Daryl H. Miller, latimes.com, 13 Oct. 2017
  • For the past 30 years Peru, with a fast-growing free-market economy that has slashed poverty, has rejected them.
    The Economist, 17 Apr. 2021
  • The Czechs wanted to create a free-market economy; the Slovaks wanted to retain a social-welfare state.
    Robert Schaeffer, New Republic, 16 Oct. 2017
  • His father, a businessman, stepped in to rescue the team during the turbulent transition from communism to a market economy in the 1990s, when its main sponsor, the local steelworks, faced bankruptcy.
    Karel Janicek, USA TODAY, 15 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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