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  • noun The exposure of service industries to market forces.

Etymologies

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From marketize +‎ -ation.

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Examples

  • He also introduced the concept of "marketization," in which public sector employees compete for their jobs against the private sector.

    John Petro: The Mayor's New Right Hand Man 2010

  • This "marketization" of agriculture has not, to be sure, been fully carried through.

    The New Yorker James Surowiecki 2008

  • "marketization" with mixed but sometimes disastrous outcomes.

    Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming RSS Newsfeed info@ecologicalinternet.org (Green Thoughts: none 2009

  • Now a long-intimidated and dispirited Yale faculty is stirring to focus and voice its resistance to the mindless marketization of everything from Yale's dubious venture to start a new college in Singapore to its proliferating centers in national-security studies that displace scholarship with strategy by "professors" McChrystal, former National Intelligence Director John Negroponte, and even Tony Blair.

    Jim Sleeper: Why Yale Fumbled Its Quarterback's Rhodes Scholarship Pass Jim Sleeper 2012

  • This created the conditions for de-marketization, which followed de-industrialization and made sustainable economic regeneration all but impossible in the Midlands and the North.

    How Big Government Killed Britain's Regions Warwick Lightfoot 2011

  • The liberties that come with modernization, marketization, and integration into the world economy are precisely those that, for better or worse, increase mobility and dissolve the traditional ties of dependence that connect individuals to families, communities, and their birthplaces.

    The Return Daniel Treisman 2011

  • And education is supposed to be all about marketization, about making something that makes money.

    Rick Ayers: Education Wars -- The Next Generation Rick Ayers 2011

  • Now a long-intimidated and dispirited Yale faculty is stirring to focus and voice its resistance to the mindless marketization of everything from Yale's dubious venture to start a new college in Singapore to its proliferating centers in national-security studies that displace scholarship with strategy by "professors" McChrystal, former National Intelligence Director John Negroponte, and even Tony Blair.

    Jim Sleeper: Why Yale Fumbled Its Quarterback's Rhodes Scholarship Pass Jim Sleeper 2012

  • And education is supposed to be all about marketization, about making something that makes money.

    Rick Ayers: Education Wars -- The Next Generation Rick Ayers 2011

  • The root causes of de-marketization in Britain's regions is a bloated public sector aggravated by a national public-sector pay premium and social-security benefits that take no account of local labor-market conditions.

    How Big Government Killed Britain's Regions Warwick Lightfoot 2011

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