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free-market economics

Portuguese translation: economia de livre mercado

14:23 May 18, 2016
English to Portuguese translations [PRO]
Bus/Financial - Economics
English term or phrase: free-market economics
I am studying free-market economics. What is the best equivalent in Portuguese to the expression "free market". Thank you.
tileeba
Portuguese translation:economia de livre mercado
Explanation:
Um outro termo para free-market economy.

https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economia_de_mercado
https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercado_livre
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Mariana Gutierrez
Local time: 10:58
Grading comment
Obrigado a todos pela ajuda!
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Summary of answers provided
5 +3economia de livre mercado
Mariana Gutierrez
5 +2economia de mercado livre
Madalena Ribeiro
4 +3economia de mercado, economia liberal
Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida


  

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7 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +2
economia de mercado livre


Explanation:
economia de mercado livre

Madalena Ribeiro
Local time: 14:58
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Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese
PRO pts in category: 8

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agree  Salvador Scofano and Gry Midttun
4 hrs
agree  expressisverbis
5 hrs
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10 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +3
economia de mercado, economia liberal


Explanation:
Diria assim em PT(pt), ver IATE:

Domain Economic system
Domain note market economy
en
Definition
economic system in which the main decisions regarding production, distribution, and exchange are made by the market, i.e. by the forces of supply and demand
Definition Ref.
"market economy" > A Dictionary of Finance and Banking > Ed Jonathan Law & John Smullen > Oxford University Press, 2008 > Oxford Reference Online > DGT, www.oxfordreference.c... (15.4.2009)

Note
This is mainly a theoretical concept as every country, even capitalist ones, places some restrictions on the ownership and exchange of commodities/services.

Term free economy
Reliability
3 (Reliable)
Term Ref.
Economywatch > Economy Types > Market Economy > Free Market Economy, www.economywatch.com/... (15.4.2009)
Date
15/04/2009

Term market economy
Reliability
3 (Reliable)
Term Ref.
"market economy" > A Dictionary of Finance and Banking > Ed Jonathan Law & John Smullen > Oxford University Press, 2008 > Oxford Reference Online > DGT, www.oxfordreference.c... (15.4.2009)
Date
24/09/2003

Term liberal economy
Reliability
3 (Reliable)
Term Ref.
Agricultural and machinery equipment,CEMAGREF,1990
Date
24/09/2003

Term free market economy
Reliability
3 (Reliable)
Context
A market economy is a type of economic system in which the trading and exchange of goods, services and information takes place in a free market. A market economy may therefore also be known as a free market economy.
Context Ref.
Economywatch > Economy Types > Market Economy, www.economywatch.com/... (15.4.2009)
Date
24/09/2003

Term free enterprise economy
Reliability
3 (Reliable)
Term Ref.
International Monetary Fund-Washington 1982
Date
24/09/2003

Term market oriented economy
Reliability
3 (Reliable)
Term Ref.
Economywatch > Economy Types > Market Economy >Market Oriented Economy, www.economywatch.com/... (15.4.2009)
Date
24/09/2003

pt
Term economia liberal
Reliability
3 (Reliable)
Term Ref.
Dic.Prat.Ilust.,J.Seguier
Date
24/09/2003

Term economia de mercado
Reliability
3 (Reliable)
Term Ref.
JOCE L 372/90,art.1
Date
24/09/2003

Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
Portugal
Local time: 14:58
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese
PRO pts in category: 164

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Stephania Matousek (X)
15 mins
  -> Obrigada, Stephania!
agree  Mario Freitas: Economia de mercado, se for PT-Br
1 hr
  -> Obrigada, Mário!
agree  expressisverbis
5 hrs
  -> Obrigada, Sandra!
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3 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +3
economia de livre mercado


Explanation:
Um outro termo para free-market economy.

https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economia_de_mercado
https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercado_livre

Mariana Gutierrez
Local time: 10:58
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in SpanishSpanish
PRO pts in category: 8
Grading comment
Obrigado a todos pela ajuda!

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  expressisverbis
2 hrs
  -> Obrigada!
agree  Carlos Roberto de Carvalho Júnior
4 hrs
  -> Obrigada, Carlos.
agree  Alfredo Carvalho
4 days
  -> Obrigada, Alfredo.
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