How to Use market economy in a Sentence

market economy

noun
  • How could such a clear shortage persist for three decades in a market economy?
    — Nicolás Rivero, Quartz, 10 Nov. 2021
  • Behind all of this, in a market economy there’s sort of a basic glitch.
    — Nicole Goodkind, CNN, 13 Mar. 2023
  • 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
  • The game can sell items to players and run a market economy where players sell amongst themselves.
    — Clem Chambers, Forbes, 8 Nov. 2021
  • But the idea is still baked deep into the justifying logic of market economies.
    — Oshan Jarow, Vox, 26 June 2024
  • Unions became synonymous with waste and sludge that have no place in a free-market economy.
    — Lila MacLellan, Quartz at Work, 16 Sep. 2019
  • Yet China is not a market economy and, on its present course, never will be.
    — The Economist, 1 Mar. 2018
  • Wealth buys choice, leverage, and a cushion for the vagaries of a market economy.
    — Teresa Ghilarducci, Forbes.com, 23 June 2026
  • Francis thus did not have an optimistic view of the market economy.
    — Alejandro Antonio Chafuen, Forbes.com, 15 May 2025
  • That is so because prices are the way that the market economy organizes itself.
    — John Tamny, Forbes, 18 Dec. 2022
  • 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
  • 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
  • This is no way to run a market economy, or to maintain political support for one.
    — Joseph C. Sternberg, WSJ, 28 July 2022
  • The rise of mass production and market economies bound happiness to economic growth.
    — January Lavoy Krish Seenivasan Ted Blaisdell, New York Times, 3 May 2025
  • The fundamentals are now in place for a market economy to work and create value.
    — Sean McGowan, STAT, 6 Mar. 2020
  • Some of these legal tussles are part of the transition to a modern market economy.
    — The Economist, 8 June 2019
  • The first dimension points to the market economy, and here retailers seem to be the driving force.
    — Maria Balaska, Time, 20 Dec. 2025
  • His obsession was figuring out how to make life in a market economy less chaotic.
    — Alex Mayyasi, NPR, 7 Apr. 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • As a bonus, the market economy and normal levels of consumption will be preserved.
    — Andrei Kolesnikov, Foreign Affairs, 9 May 2025
  • 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
  • Due to the market economy, people see themselves as consumers and the world outside of them as producers.
    — Laura Rysman, WSJ, 9 Sep. 2022
  • 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
  • All of this stuff is impeding the normal maturation of the market economy.
    — Brian Domitrovic, Forbes.com, 27 Apr. 2025
  • Friedman was asked to draw up a program that would move Israel from socialism toward a free-market economy.
    — Lee Edwards, National Review, 14 Oct. 2019
  • Social democracy is based on the proposition that all citizens are equal before the law and in the market economy.
    — Jeffrey D. Sachs, CNN, 25 May 2021
  • For the first time in history, nearly every country on the planet was deeply enmeshed in the same global market economy.
    — Big Think, 14 Apr. 2026

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