free marketeering

English

Etymology

free marketeer +‎ -ing

Noun

free marketeering (uncountable)

1. Belief in a free market model of economy; the exploitation of a market in which trade is subject to little or no regulation by government.
   • 1990, “The 1990 Inkatha Declaration” in Mangosuthu Buthelezi, South Africa: My Vision of the Future, New York: St. Martin’s Press, p. 141,^[1]

     There shall be consultative mechanisms set up in which organised agriculture, mining, commerce, banking and industry participates to advise the Government on the best ways to avoid the dangers of free marketeering and exploitation on the one hand and the dangers of State control that curbs productivity on the other hand.

   • 2009 March 28, John F. Burns, Landon Thomas Jr., “Anglo-American Capitalism on Trial”, in The New York Times:

     […] what the British and American leaders will be attempting at the G-20 conference […] will be to begin building a new global financial system that curbs the rampant and often conscienceless free-marketeering of the past 20 years with a new sense of accountability and restraint […]

   • 2013 November 18, Michael Wolff, “Forbes is latest old media for sale—with help from the New York Times”, in The Guardian:

     Forbes was once the business magazine of the high-trouser country-club set, a rock of free marketeering and bible of mid-size company executives, worth several billion dollars.