voluntary exchange

collocation in English

meaningsofvoluntaryandexchange

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voluntary
adjective
uk
/ˈvɒl.ən.tər.i/us
/ˈvɑː.lən.ter.i/
done, made, or given willingly, without being forced or paid to ...
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exchange
noun
uk
/ɪksˈtʃeɪndʒ/us
/ɪksˈtʃeɪndʒ/
the act of giving something to someone and them giving you ...
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(Definition ofvoluntaryandexchangefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Markets are a means of bringing together buyers and sellers for purposes ofvoluntaryexchange.
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Yes, if people have property rights they can transfer them throughvoluntaryexchange.
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It applies thevoluntaryexchangeparadigm of economics, in which the individual is assumed to maximise his own self-interest.
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Voluntaryexchangeof rights with overall restriction of resource use may ensure increasing access of poorer households to common property forests.
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There has been a legal base set for the euro and a basis for a new,voluntaryexchangerate mechanism.
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It was avoluntaryexchange.
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I would have preferred a more positive statement; namely, that if we are an "out", at least we should be willing to join this newvoluntaryexchangemechanism.
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It is an institution based onvoluntaryexchangeof secrets, experience and views as well as discussing problems.
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Avoluntaryexchangemay reduce societal welfare if external costs exist.
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It involves thevoluntaryexchangeof pollution reduction credits from sources with low costs of pollution control to those with high costs of pollution control.
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Voluntaryexchangeis also a fundamental assumption made by neoclassical economics.
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The morality of markets, even those rarely adhering to truevoluntaryexchange, are nonetheless in dispute.
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Libertarians often invoke the morality as well as the efficiency ofvoluntaryexchangeto argue against government mandates, including many forms of taxation.
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According to the index, the cornerstones of economic freedom are personal choice,voluntaryexchange, freedom to compete, and security of privately owned property.
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By leading to an economic system of voluntary exchanges, it gave rise to a vibrant market economy.
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It describes exclusion as micro-discrimination from various spheres of social life, which constrains social mobility and voluntary exchanges and associations between individuals.
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Voluntaryexchange, by virtue of its voluntary nature, is assumed to be beneficial (ex ante) to the parties involvedwhy else would they engage in the exchange?
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Not to earn desirable goods by rational thought and action, production andvoluntaryexchange, but to go in there and forcibly take goods from those who can supply them!
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