market fundamentalistn.adj.
/ˌmɑːkɪt ˌfʌndəˈmɛntl̩ɪst/, U.S. /ˌmɑrkət ˌfəndəˈmɛn(t)l̩əst/ A. n.
1. U.S. Stock Market. A person who analyses economic and financial statistics and information in order to identify or predict market trends and developments; cf. fundamentalist n. 2. Now somewhat rare.
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1956 Abilene (Texas) Reporter-News 13 Apr. 2 a/4 All of a sudden, in September, stocks broke. Economists and market fundamentalists looked around for deep causes.
1973 R. Hagin & C. Mader What Today's Investor should know About vi. 51 A market fundamentalist might base a buy recommendation on the fact that a company has consistently shown year-to-year earnings increases.
1999 Naugatuck (Connecticut) Daily News 30 Apr. b8/4 These questions are getting increased attention from market fundamentalists, the sort of analysts who ask disturbing questions about earnings prospects, customer service, management and the like.
2. Political Economy (usually somewhat depreciative). An adherent or advocate of the economic doctrine that competition within an unregulated market will produce the best possible economic and social conditions.
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society > trade and finance > management of money > management of national resources > [noun] > political economy > specific theories or doctrines > supporters of
physiocrat1798
Ricardian1825
protectionist1834
marginalist1907
cameralist1909
Keynesian1938
rationalist1958
monetarist1961
structuralist1962
Paretan1969
Veblenian1973
market fundamentalist1993
1993 Environmental Ethics Summer 143 They recognize that there are market fundamentalists who would subdivide Yellowstone park because doing so would be efficient economically in terms of supply and demand.
1995 Observer 29 Nov. (Review section) 15/5 Only new weapons could defeat the market fundamentalists of the Thatcherite Right—and their mirror images on the Bennite Left.
2002 New Republic 2 Sept. 20/1 Multiple equilibriums are all the rage now—but market fundamentalists continue to believe they have solid science behind them.
2011 New Yorker 3 Oct. 30/1 [She] described herself as more left-wing than her husband, but added, ‘He was always a social liberal. He was never a market fundamentalist’.
B. adj.
Of or relating to the economic doctrine of market fundamentalism; that adheres to or advocates the doctrine of market fundamentalism.
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society > trade and finance > management of money > management of national resources > [adjective] > of or relating to specific theories or doctrines
physiocratical1789
Smithian1801
physiocratic1804
protective1822
Ricardian1824
cameralistic1831
Marshallian1894
monetarist1914
Paretian1916
neoclassical1926
marginalist1929
Keynesian1931
underconsumptionist1936
pre-Keynesian1939
Walrasian1942
trickle-down1944
neo-Keynesian1947
Schumpeterian1950
structuralist1962
monetaristic1972
market fundamentalist1997
1997 Calgary Herald 29 Nov. i. 6/4 Market fundamentalist preachers..tend to mumble some variant of the ‘trickle-down’ theory of economics.
2009 S. Sim Carbon Footpr. Wars iv. 68 The power unmistakably resides with the West and its market fundamentalist ethos.
2016 Mail & Guardian (Johannesburg) (Nexis) 7 Sept. From a market fundamentalist perspective, the state had no place to be directly involved in the economy.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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n.adj.1956