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Laissez-faire (/ ˌ l ɛ s eɪ ˈ f ɛər / LESS-ay-FAIR, from French: laissez faire [lɛse fɛːʁ] ⓘ, lit. ' let do ' ) is a type of economic system in which transactions between private groups of people are free from any form of economic interventionism (such as subsidies or regulations ).
1926 Laissez-Faire and Communism (New Republic) 1929 Can Lloyd George Do It? (Nation and Athenaeum) 1930 Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren (Nation and Athenaeum) 1930 The Great Slump of 1930 (Nation and Athenæum) 1931 The End of the Gold Standard (Sunday Express) 1933 The Means to Prosperity (Macmillan and Co.)
A rigid belief in laissez-faire guided the government response in 1846–1849 to the Great Famine in Ireland, during which an estimated 1.5 million people died. The minister responsible for economic and financial affairs, Charles Wood, expected that private enterprise and free trade, rather than government intervention, would alleviate the ...
That began in the 1980s when Ronald Reagan was president and led a push for more Laissez Faire economics. Ignoring the US's hand in the demise of its own working class means this administration ...
While most agreed that the status quo liberalism promoting laissez-faire economics had failed, deep disagreements arose around the proper role of the state. A group of "true (third way) neoliberals" centered around Rüstow and Lippmann advocated for strong state supervision of the economy while a group of old school liberals centered around ...
Friedman did statistical work at the Division of War Research at Columbia, where he and his colleagues came up with the technique. [121] It became, in the words of The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, "the standard analysis of quality control inspection". The dictionary adds, "Like many of Friedman's contributions, in retrospect it seems ...
Although laissez-faire has been commonly associated with capitalism, there is a similar economic theory associated with socialism called left-wing or socialist laissez-faire, also known as free-market anarchism, free-market anti-capitalism and free-market socialism to distinguish it from laissez-faire capitalism.
Laissez-faire economists [who?] argue that government intervention is the cause of economic crises, and that left to its devices, the market will adjust efficiently. As for the implication that dislocations cannot cause persistent unemployment, some theories of economic cycles accept Say's law and seek to explain high unemployment in other ways ...