marknadsekonomisk
Marknadsekonomisk is a Swedish adjective used to describe policies, theories, or approaches that emphasize the market as the primary mechanism for allocating resources. The term is closely linked to the idea of a market economy, where prices, competition, and private property guide production and consumption with limited central planning. In policy discourse, marknadsekonomisk thinking seeks to increase efficiency and innovation by relying on price signals, competition, and voluntary exchange, while reducing direct state intervention.
In practice, marknadsekonomisk policy often supports measures such as deregulation, privatization of state-owned enterprises, outsourcing, contracting
Historically, the term appears in Swedish political and academic debates during periods of liberalization and reform
The term functions descriptively to characterize a stance or framework rather than a single theory. It is