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Recent Examples on the Web The alternative to that was a market economy with limited freedoms — China. — New York Times, "People Are Dying. Who Do We Save First With the Vaccine?," 24 Dec. 2020 Friedman noted correctly that, in a market economy, profits represent value created for customers. — Alexander William Salter, WSJ, "Profit Keeps Corporate Leaders Honest," 8 Dec. 2020 Once a technology becomes normalized into the market economy, there is no limit to potential new applications. — Martin N. Ross, Scientific American, "An Underappreciated Danger of the New Space Age: Global Air Pollution," 6 Nov. 2020 Decades later, in 2005, in a sinister irony of the market economy, this print of an elderly man waiting in a relief line sold at Sotheby’s for $822,400. — Valeria Luiselli, The New York Review of Books, "Things as They Are," 3 Nov. 2020 Bernie Sanders, meanwhile, has advocated for universal free health care, canceling all student debt, and expanding Social Security benefits within America's free-market economy. — Leslie Gornstein, CBS News, "What is socialism? And what do socialists really want in 2020?," 23 Sep. 2020 For years, the world has watched and waited for China to become more like a free-market economy, thereby reducing American security concerns. — Daniel Rosen, WSJ, "China Backslides on Economic Reform," 22 Sep. 2020 This problem did not arise only after the fall of the Soviet Union and Russia’s nominal transformation to a market economy. — Jennifer Taub, Washington Post, "Trump among the kleptocrats," 3 Sep. 2020 Duda and the Law and Justice party, both in power since 2015, have been credited for making good on promises to reduce the economic inequality that came with the country's transition from communism to a market economy three decades ago. — Fox News, "Poland reelects President Andrzej Duda in narrow victory over liberal Warsaw mayor Rafal Trzaskowski," 12 July 2020

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“Market economy.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/market%20economy. Accessed 17 Jan. 2021.