laissez faire

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1. laissez faire - Noun

2. laissez faire - Adjective

4. laissez faire - Phrase

5. laissez faire - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Noninterference; -- an axiom of some political economists, deprecating interference of government by attempts to foster or regulate commerce, manufactures, etc., by bounty or by restriction; as, the doctrine of laissez faire; the laissez faire system government.

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laissez-faire

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Laissez Faire was very good sauce for the goose, labor, but was very poor sauce for the gander, capital. Benjamin Tucker

If one rejects laissez faire on account of man's fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action. Ludwig von Mises

Her philosophy is carpe diem for herself and laissez faire for others. F. Scott Fitzgerald

[I am against] the Treaty of Rome which entrenches laissez faire as its philosophy and chooses bureaucracy as its administrative method. Tony Benn

Manufacturing and commercial monopolies owe their origin not to a tendency imminent in a capitalist economy but to governmental interventionist policy directed against free trade and laissez faire. Ludwig von Mises

Members of our party were fighting for the working classes when Members or the ancestors of Members opposite were shackled with laissez faire. Stanley Baldwin

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