An Anglo-Saxon economy or Anglo-Saxon capitalism (so called because it is supposedly practiced in English-speaking countries such as the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, New Zealand, Australia and Ireland ) is a capitalist macroeconomic model that emerged in the 1970s, based on the Chicago school of economics, in which levels of regulation and taxes are low, and government provides relatively fewer services.
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