1. free market - Noun
2. free market - Adjective
free market (plural free markets)
(economics) Any market in which trade is unregulated by government; an economic system free from government intervention.
Synonym: open market
free-market
Of, related to or characteristic of a free market. Lacking wealth redistribution and government regulation.
free-market
A major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that it ... gives people what they want instead of what a particular group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself. Milton Friedman
The only way that has ever been discovered to have a lot of people cooperate together voluntarily is through the free market. And that's why it's so essential to preserving individual freedom. Milton Friedman
Inflation, being a fraudulent invasion of property, could not take place on the free market. Murray Rothbard
You cannot take away freedom to protect it, you cannot destroy the free market to save it, and you cannot uphold freedom of speech by silencing those with whom you disagree. To take rights away to defend them or to spend your way out of debt defies common sense. Glenn Beck
The history of capitalism has been so totally re-written that many people in the rich world do not perceive the historical double standards involved in recommending free trade and free market to developing countries. Ha-Joon Chang
Democracy is acceptable to neo-liberals only in so far as it does not contradict the free market. Ha-Joon Chang