規制緩和

Also known as deregulating, decontrol

thumb|250px|As a result of deregulation of telecommunications in New Zealand, France Télécom (now Orange S.A.|Orange) operated phone booths in [[Wellington and across New Zealand in the 2000s.]] Deregulation is the process of removing or reducing state regulations, typically in the economic sphere. It is the repeal of governmental regulation of the economy. It became common in advanced industrial economies in the 1970s and 1980s, as a result of new trends in economic thinking about the inefficiencies of government regulation, and the risk that regulatory agencies would be controlled by the reg