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Meanings of laissez faire in English

Russian
laissez faire
Portuguese
laissez-faire
Spanish
capitalismo laissez-faire
Catalan
laissez faire
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Abstention by governments from interfering in the workings of the free market.

Related terms
laissez faire
Portuguese
individualismo
Catalan
individualisme

The doctrine that government should not interfere in commercial affairs.

individualismo
Synonyms
Examples for "laissez-faire capitalism"
Examples for "laissez-faire capitalism"
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Polanyi's great insight is that laissez-faire capitalism goes hand in hand with an interventionist, bureaucratic state.
The Guardian
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For example, during the Golden Age of laissez-faire capitalism, recessions were often preceded by bank failures.
Economics Without Illusions
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Union leaders and reformers increasingly questioned the unrestrained laissez-faire capitalism that had allowed this to happen.
American-made: the enduring legacy of the wpa : when fdr put the...
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Strict laissez-faire capitalism created extraordinary wealth in late 19th- and early 20th-century America.
The Guardian
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Ayn Rand's gospel of unadulterated laissez-faire capitalism seems to be gaining popularity among a new generation of followers.
The Guardian
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The society that emerged in the 2170s was therefore dramatically different from the freewheeling laissez-faireism of fifty years earlier.
The Complete Rama Omnibus
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Perhaps the greatest - and even defining - feature of Irish political culture is its central laissez-fairism: leaving well alone.
The Irish Times
Usage of laissez faire in English
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The laissez faire School was certainly the more logical of the two.
The Roman and the Teuton / A Series of Lectures delivered before...
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Under laissez faire capitalism, foreign entrepreneurs were able to flourish in Egypt.
The Irish Times
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Plato is aware that laissez faire is an important element of government.
The Republic
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The laissez faire doctrine of economic life was good form in those days.
Theodore Roosevelt and His Times: A Chronicle of the Progressive...
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Certainly not by idleness, inefficiency, an easy policy of laissez faire.
Mobilizing Woman-Power
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A fair wage would keep them on the farm-thisis the philosophy of laissez faire.
Mobilizing Woman-Power
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What was purportedly a party gig for Tower Records turned into a laissez faire affair.
The Irish Times
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A few points must be made in relation to this simple liberal or laissez faire faith.
The Irish Times
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We must avoid the two extremes-thatof the radical reformer and the apostle of laissez faire.
The Complete Works of Brann, the Iconoclast — Volume 01
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Yet others supported the cause of laissez faire (Marc Eisner).
Financial Crime and Corruption
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The provinces target their home games and take a more laissez faire attitude to the away fixtures.
The Irish Times
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Comparison suggests Ireland's fast food chains have a laissez faire attitude to the environmental impact of packaging materials used.
The Irish Times
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The period of laissez faire in imperial matters, of Little Englandism, drew to a close in the early eighties.
The Canadian Dominion: A Chronicle of Our Northern Neighbor
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In forgetting this, in my humble opinion, lay the error of the early, or laissez faire School of Political Economy.
The Roman and the Teuton / A Series of Lectures delivered before...
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Soon his famous advice of " laissez faire" became the battle-cry around which the economists of that period rallied.
The Story of Mankind
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The Central Bank is getting a bit of stick for its somewhat laissez faire approach to rocketing south Dublin house prices.
The Irish Times