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Laissez Faire
/ˌlɛ(ˌ)seɪ ˈfɛəɹ/
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What does Laissez Faire mean?
noun
- A policy of governmental non-interference in economic affairs.
- A policy of non-interference by authority in any competitive process.
adjective
- Practicing or representing governmental noninterference, or minimal interference, especially in economic affairs; pertaining to free-market capitalism.
More meanings (3)
adjective
- Advocating such noninterference.
- Resulting from such noninterference.
- Avoiding interference in other people's affairs; choosing to live and let live.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˌlɛ(ˌ)seɪ ˈfɛəɹ/
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These are typical impatient solutions in the sphere of religion; in the sphere of economics men urge nationalization, free trade, socialism or laissez faire, or some law or other to change social structure and human nature.
The scope of a modern government in what it can and ought to accomplish for its people has been widened far beyond the principles laid down by the old "laissez faire" school of political writers, and this widening has met popular approval.
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Jurgis had not studied the books, and he would not have known how to pronounce “laissez faire”; but he had been round the world enough to know that a man has to shift for himself in it, and that if he gets the worst of it, there is nobody to listen to him holler.