Examples of market economy in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web At the start of the year, prices for the fuel called liquefied petroleum gas roughly doubled as the government moved away from price controls as part of efforts to move to a market economy. — Jim Heintz, USA TODAY, 6 Jan. 2022 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 At the start of the year, prices for the fuel called liquefied petroleum gas roughly doubled as the government moved away from price controls as part of efforts to move to a market economy. — Jim Heintz, Anchorage Daily News, 6 Jan. 2022 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 If approved in a referendum next year, the new document could require the government to abandon fiscal discipline while raising public spending or dismantling some of the pillars of the market economy, analysts say. — Ryan Dube, WSJ, 20 Dec. 2021 As a market economy emerged in the 1700s, according to Jill Lepore in a New Yorker essay on the historical treatment of debtors, debt punishments shifted away from imprisonment — which also meant that punishments shifted away from the body. — Kristin Collier, Longreads, 1 Dec. 2021 How could such a clear shortage persist for three decades in a market economy? — Nicolás Rivero, Quartz, 10 Nov. 2021 Under that formula, China’s market economy took off, generating vast new wealth over the past 40 years, but also great inequality, worse than that in India and slightly less than in the United States, according to World Bank data. — Ann Scott Tyson, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 Oct. 2021

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“Market economy.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/market%20economy. Accessed 19 Jan. 2022.

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