free-market policies
Minimal government intervention
Free-market policies are government approaches that minimize intervention in economic activity, favoring private enterprise, deregulation, and market-driven pricing over state control.
The term often appears in debates about trade, taxation, and social programs: The administration pursued aggressive free-market policies.
Critics and supporters use the phrase with different connotations—efficiency and growth to some, inequality and corporate power to others.
- capitalismPrivate profit-based economy
- free enterprisePrivately owned, competitive economy
- deregulationRemoving governmental business restrictions
- privatizationState sells public assets
- laissez-faireNoninterference in commerce
neoliberal · invisible hand · trade · competition · level playing field · enterprise · libertarian · supply-side · tax cuts · austerity · globalization · shock therapy · Thatcher · Reagan · monetarism · trickle-down · small government · liberalization
free-market policiescentral planning
Government directs all production
command economy · planned economy · state control · government intervention · statism
free-market policiessocialism
Communal economic control
communism · Marxist economics · state socialism · anti-capitalism · communist policies
free-market policiesinterventionism
Policy of deliberate involvement
protectionism · statism · government regulation · state intervention · price controls
freedom, freely, freeman, freeborn, freeing, market, markets, marketing, marketed