Italian edit

Etymology edit

Literally, free market.

Noun edit

libero mercato m (plural liberi mercati)

  1. (economics) free market
    • 2020, Barack Obama, chapter 22, in Chicca Galli, Paolo Lucca, Giuseppe Maugeri, transl., Una terra promessa [A Promised Land], Garzanti Libri:
      ... le maggiori economie europee erano tutte guidate da governi di centrodestra che, per essere eletti, avevano promesso il pareggio di bilancio e riforme ispirate al libero mercato...
      ...Europe's biggest economies were almost all led by center-right governments, elected on the promise of balanced budgets and free market reforms...
      (literally, “... Europe's major economies were all guided by center-right governments that, to be elected, had promised balanced budgets and reforms inspired by the free market...”)