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Free enterprise   /fri ˈɛntərprˌaɪz/   Listen
Free enterprise

noun
1.
An economy that relies chiefly on market forces to allocate goods and resources and to determine prices.  Synonyms: laissez-faire economy, market economy, private enterprise.  Antonym: non-market economy.






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"Free enterprise" Quotes from Famous Books



... program he is playing false to the very cause in which he had enlisted. That cause was a battle against monopoly, against control, against the concentration of power in our economic development, against all those things that interfere with absolutely free enterprise. I believe that some day these gentlemen will wake up and realize that they have misplaced their trust, not in an individual, it may be, but in a program which is fatal to the things ...
— The New Freedom - A Call For the Emancipation of the Generous Energies of a People • Woodrow Wilson

... adolescent equivalent of the crime comic, and we believe them to be equally harmful. Action against them will, we think, no more infringe the principle of freedom of speech than action against narcotics infringes the principle of free enterprise ...
— Report of the Juvenile Delinquency Committee • Ronald Macmillan Algie

... monopolies, industry was shackled in the earlier part of the modern period by restrictive legislation in various forms, by navigation laws, and by tariffs. In particular, the tariff was not merely an obstruction to free enterprise, but a source of inequality as between trade and trade. Its fundamental effect is to transfer capital and labour from the objects on which they can be most profitably employed in a given locality, to objects on which they are less profitably ...
— Liberalism • L. T. Hobhouse

... Fort Concho and the Texas Frontier, San Angelo Standard-Times, San Angelo, Texas, 1952. Mainly a history of military activities against Comanches and other tribes, laced with homilies on the free enterprise virtues of ...
— Guide to Life and Literature of the Southwest • J. Frank Dobie

... How did the Colonial Period provide a foundation for the "American Experience" by the development of a system of free enterprise ...
— The Road to Independence: Virginia 1763-1783 • Virginia State Dept. of Education



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