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Laissez-faire - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Laissez-faire (lɛze fɛr) is short for "laissez faire, laissez aller, laissez passer," a French phrase meaning "let do, let go, let pass." First used by the eighteenth century Physiocrats as an injunction against government interference with trade, it became used as a synonym for strict free market economics during the early and mid-19th century. Critics may consider laissez faire as only an ideological veneer, including for the public a simple type of folk mythology appealing to nostalghic sentiment, obscuring what is actually a system of localist protectionism often associated with typically conservative politics, which in turn may only function in the context of elite-controlled economic expansionism, (or economic imperialism) Adam Smith played a large role in popularizing laissez-faire economic theories in English-speaking countries, though he was critical of a number of aspects of what is currently thought of as laissez-faire (such as lack of government regulation of business practices). en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Laissez-faire   (1143 words)

Laissez Faire or Dictatorship - Mises Institute Laissez faire means: let the individual citizen, the much talked-about common man, choose and act and do not force him to yield to a dictator. Laissez faire is the embodiment of negativism, while socialism, in converting all people into government employees, is 100-percent positive. Laissez faire is not even formally a negative formula; rather it is the contrary of laissez faire that would sound negative. www.mises.org /fullstory.asp?control=814   (3376 words)

laissez faire - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about laissez faire The reaction against laissez faire began in the mid-19th century and found expression in the factory acts and elsewhere. The phrase originated with the Physiocrats, 18th-century French economists whose maxim was laissez faire et laissez passer (literally, ‘let go and let pass’ – that is, leave the individual alone and let commodities circulate freely). This reaction was inspired partly by humanitarian protests against the social conditions created by the Industrial Revolution and partly by the wish to counter popular unrest of the 1830s and 1840s by removing some of its causes. encyclopedia.farlex.com /Laissez+Faire   (327 words)

Laissez Faire Capitalism "Laissez Faire" is French for "leave alone" which means that the government leaves the people alone regarding all economic activities. "Laissez Faire Capitalism" is actually redundant, due to the nature of Capitalism. Therefore, simply "Capitalism" is sufficient to get the point across although historically it has been misrepresented as compatible with government economic interference. www.importanceofphilosophy.com /Politics_LaissezFaire.html   (117 words)

Laissez Faire Laissez faire attitudes made a comeback of sorts during the boom times of the Roaring 20s, but the depression of the 1930s brought the New Deal and the return of government intervention in the economy. Laissez faire (from the French, meaning to leave alone or to allow to do) is an economic and political doctrine that holds that economies function most efficiently when unencumbered by government regulation. Laissez faire reached its apex in the 1870s during the age of industrialization as American factories operated with a free hand. www.u-s-history.com /pages/h844.html   (397 words)

"Laissez Faire" is stupid. Laissez faire is the shortened version to the answer given to King Louis the somethingth (sorry, forgot which one, maybe 15th?) when he asked what he could do to help the business community. Laissez Faire is also a very convenient excuse to impose subordination. It is obvious that Laissez faire itself makes no sense as a statement, without the third person pronoun. www.anti-state.com /forum/index.php?board=16;action=display;threadid=10331;start=0;boardseen=1   (2546 words)

laissez-faire on Encyclopedia.com Value freedom, laissez faire, Mises, and Rothbard: a comment on Professor Gunning. The reputation of Paris's cafes as charming but smokey establishments where customers light up cigarettes with a laissez faire disregard for others could come in for a change under a new initiative launched 26 October by the city. How to be a value-free advocate of laissez faire: Ludwig von Mises's solution.(Point Counterpoint: Can the Advocate of Laissez-Faire Policies Also Claim to be Value Free?) www.encyclopedia.com /html/section/laissezf_formulationsofthedoctrine.asp   (1081 words)

Laissez Faire! on WCSB Cleveland, OH USA Laissez Faire is a news and commentary program covering the activities of libertarians, both 'capital L' and 'small l'. Those wishing to support 'Laissez Faire' are encouraged to become underwriters of the program. The scope of the program is very broad, to include: a theme of championing individual freedoms discussed via current affairs/trends/phenomena, politics, economics, sociology, the arts, etc. The program features hard news and opinionated commentary, interviews with those both friendly and antagonistic to libertarians, and the occassional listener call-in. www.shelley.ch /lf   (202 words)

Laissez-Faire He advocates a flat tax rate and a negative income tax, which he believes to be more fair than the progressive income tax. Freidman also believes that the government should balance its budget over the business cycle, but not necessarily every year. f.students.umkc.edu /fkfc8/Laissez-Faire.htm   (1627 words)

Laissez Faire City Laissez Faire City (LFCity) was a sovereign international city domiciled in Cyberspace. If you are a Founder coming in from the cold, please contact audit@hush.com for information on the Founders' Audit. www.lfcity.com   (31 words)

Update on Laissez Faire City The stock exchange (and ability to easily form a Laissez Faire City corporation) is especially intriguing to me. In August 1998, FNF Members John and Richard Kingman (brothers) traveled to San José, Costa Rica, to get a firsthand impression of the Laissez Faire City organization. I believe it fair to say that most LFC members judge tactics such as those of the Free Nation Foundation to be looking too far in the future; i.e. libertariannation.org /a/f63k1.html   (1411 words)

laissez faire of, pertaining to, or conforming to the principles or practices of laissez faire. www.infoplease.com /dictionary/laissez+faire   (81 words)

Grant Schuyler's essay "Laissez-Faire" These companies would be more efficient and fair than government courts and police, simply because they were private and in competition. Instead of allowing governments to monopolize physical force, private persons could contract with private companies for their self-defence. They were named defence agencies by the critics, who gradually began to call themselves Libertarians. home.ca.inter.net /~grantsky/laissez.html   (926 words)

Laissez Faire Books Today the term laissez faire has come to mean: leave the people alone, let them be, in their economic activities, in their religious affairs, in thought and culture, in the pursuit of fulfillment in their own lives. Several French authors in the earlier part of the 18th century, including the Marquis d'Argenson, used the slogan laissez faire. The great Turgot attributed the rule laissez faire, laissez passer—leave things alone, let goods pass through -- to Gournay. www.lfb.com /index.php?action=help&helpfile=meaninglf.html   (174 words)

Brill's Content: Laissez-Faire TV Stossel is enemy No. 1 to Jeff Cohen, who runs the liberal group Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting (FAIR) and has been a Brill's Content columnist (see "Face-Off," page 54). But Stossel still works to present opposing opinions and deliver fair reports, according to Neufeld. Such a nonconformist as Stossel invites scrutiny (from an organization like FAIR), and scrutiny inevitably uncovers errors. www.mediatransparency.org /reprints/brill_stossel.htm   (2985 words)

tBlog - l a i s s e z - f a i r e Some extremists of either party may ardently support the actual candidate, but for the most part, I think it would be fair to say that there is little true support for either candidate- rather, the support given is based on party allegiance or a need for change. So, no, I don't think that it is fair to claim that Bush purposefully misled the nation when he spoke of his belief regarding Iraq. Whether President Bush knowingly [i]lied[/i] to the public by stating that there were stockpiles of WMD and that Saddam Hussein had the intent to attack us, I simply do not know, and I would not make that assertion. dragonbait22.tblog.com   (14359 words)

The Laissez Faire Pack :: A pack of non-interference with others & freedom of action The Laissez Faire Pack is a pack of wolves, some family and some friends. The warnings have also been set up due to the banning of "NI and AoTS." Anyway...Welcome to it and we hope you like and learn a little something about the Laissez Faire wolves. If you happen to have complaints and/or questions please feel the urge to yell at either Rustic or Deleterious (Miranda and Jeff) on their YIM screen names which are (Rustic) rustic_moonlight_wolf and (Deleterious) secret_fears_of_demise (@yaoo.com) www.freewebs.com /laissezfaire   (147 words)

News of Laissez Faire City, by J. Orlin Grabbe So, effectively on April 15, 2001, DMT took over the responsibility for the completion and delivery of all of Laissez Faire City's software products, excepting those involving Dodge City (which is separately managed). Recently the lack of delivery of a number of Laissez Faire City's announced privacy products began to get in the way of completing the DMT system. We also initially took away almost all resources from MailVault, so that we could jump start the (new) ALTA accounts (bank accounts held by LFC Cybercorporations) and LESE (the Laissez Faire City Stock Exchange). www.orlingrabbe.com /lfc_news1.htm   (1544 words)

Laissez Faire Institute for Economic and Policy Studies Laissez Faire Institute for Economic and Policy Studies If you are that kind of person, I believe you will enjoy your time spent here. www.geocities.com /CapitolHill/Lobby/3607   (259 words)

Social Darwinism, Herbert Spencer, American Laissez-faire Capitalism, lesson plans It is fair that the super rich, who benefit the most from the American economy, pay more taxes than less wealthy taxpayers. Eliminating the estate tax in 2010 and after would cause a major drop in revenue just when huge numbers of workers will retire and will need Social Security. What do you think is the fair thing to do? www.crf-usa.org /bria/bria19_2b.htm   (2274 words)

John Maynard Keynes: The end of laissez-faire (1926) The maxim laissez-nous faire is traditionally attributed to the merchant Legendre addressing Colbert some time towards the end of the seventeenth century. It is not, until we come to the later works of Bentham - who was not an economist at all - that we discover the rule of laissez-faire, in the shape in which our grandfathers knew it, adapted into the service of the Utilitarian philosophy. The phrase laissez-faire was, I think, first brought into popular usage in England by a well-known passage of Dr Franklin's. www.panarchy.org /keynes/laissezfaire.1926.html   (6191 words)

Laissez Faire Books Sheldon concludes by advising those who care about liberty to read Szasz's latest title, "soon to be at Laissez Faire Books." The work he's referring to is sure to be one of the most talked about and hotly debated Szasz tomes ever. Laissez Faire Books just gotten our stock of the video and we're featuring it on our home page this week! According to Boortz, at least one constituent responded with a threat of his own, instructing state Senator Mike Fasano that such legislation "is a clear attack on the rights of private property and I oppose this bill. www.laissezfairebooks.com /index.php?action=help&helpfile=may04archive.html   (8873 words)

Laissez-faire - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Laissez-faire (imperative) is distinct from laisser faire (infinitive), which refers to a careless attitude in the application of a policy, implying a lack of consideration or thought. Some critics of laissez-faire argue that the attainment of pure capitalism is impossible, for example since it is difficult to deal with market failures without an active role for government. Laissez-faire is short for "laissez faire, laissez passer," a French phrase meaning "let do, let pass." It is pronounced approximately lessEH fare, lessEH pahssEH. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Laissez-faire_capitalism   (808 words)

laissez-faire from FOLDOC Recommended Reading: Rajani Kannepalli Kanth, Political Economy and Laissez Faire: Economics and Ideology in the Ricardian Era (Rowman and Littlefield, 1986) and Gilbert Faccarello, Foundations of 'Laissez-Faire' (Routledge, 1999). Hence, in political philosophy and economics, a presumption against the desirability of governmental interference with the natural order of society in general and with the conduct of free trade in particular. lgxserver.uniba.it /lei/foldop/foldoc.cgi?laissez-faire   (93 words)

Darwin's Influence on Ruthless Laissez-Faire Capitalism [Free Republic] I do not share the author's opposition to "extreme" laissez faire capitalism, but he makes a valid argument with respect to the worldview of the so-called Robber Barons. It is not necessarily contradictory for a person to hold racial prejudices yet desire fair treatment for the race(s) against which he is prejudiced. Keep in mind that, for all their public adherence to "survival of the fittest," they supported state intervention in the form of tariffs to protect their manufactures from foreign competition and anti-syndicalism laws to suppress labor unions. www.freerepublic.com /forum/a3ac2495d2220.htm   (10695 words)

Criminal Conspiracy at Laissez Faire City? I have in my possession a letter from the Trustee of Laissez Faire City International Trust saying that dissolution of the Trust would be against the interests of the Founders. The Trustee indicates he is being put under intense pressure to make decisions he thinks are wrong. www.aci.net /kalliste/lfcit_conspiracy.htm   (814 words)

Laissez-Faire Many believed that government protection was needed to insure fair competition and high standards of morality. When a consumer has no choice but to purchase from a certain company, that monopoly is able to regulate prices to whatever they deem ‘fair’. Such exploitation could be brought about in low wages and poor working conditions, long working hours, and many others. www.freeessays.cc /db/18/emt135.shtml   (2138 words)

Laissez-Faire Free Trade Laissez-Faire Economics Questia.com Online Library Government's Role in Economic Life (inclues "Laissez Faire in the Eighteen and Nineteenth Centuries," starting on p. ...seventeenth centuries to the laissez faire capitalism of the Victorian era...economic systems which preceded laissez faire capitalism as being merely the...principles as... Part III "Laissez Faire and Planning" explores the... questia.com /library/.../economics/economic-theory/laissez-faire.jsp   (557 words)

F.10 Would laissez-faire capitalism be stable? All during the hey-day of laissez faire we also find popular protests against the money system used, namely specie (in particular gold), which was considered as a hindrance to economic activity and expansion (as well as being a tool for the rich). Unsurprisingly, right-libertarians combine their support for "absolute property rights" with a whole-hearted support for laissez-faire capitalism. As there have been no example of "pure" capitalism it is difficult to say whether their claims about are true (for a discussion of a close approximation see the section F.10.3). www.geocities.com /CapitolHill/1931/secF10.html   (9499 words)

Laissez-Faire Capitalism, Chapter 20 of Reisman's CAPITALISM: A TREATISE ON ECONOMICS It is important to understand that acceptance of the principle of laissez faire and the willingness to fight for that principle is the only safeguard of the public against the depredations of pressure groups. Linkage of the campaign for privatization with an assault on the environmental movement would be instrumental in reestablishing capitalism in the minds of the public as the system of progress and improvement advocated by men of reason, and the opposition to capitalism as the manifestation of ignorance, fear, and superstition. Capital accumulation and the rise in the productivity of labor would be the result both of a greater relative production of capital goods and a higher productivity of capital goods. www.capitalism.net /Laissez-Faire%20Capitalism.htm   (16359 words)

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