Laissez-Faire
Laissez-faire (; French: [lɛsefɛʁ] (listen); from French: laissez faire, lit. 'let do') is an economic system in which transactions between private groups of people are free from or almost free from any form of economic interventionism such as regulation and subsidies. As a system of thought, laissez-faire rests on the axioms that the individual is the basic unit in society and has a natural right to freedom; that the physical order of nature is a harmonious and self-regulating system; and that corporations are creatures of the state and therefore the citizens must watch them closely due to their propensity to …
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MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 12 November 2024 English
Railway commuting is today a mundane and routine necessity, yet for the Victorians it was a novel experience. It opened up new possibilities of living at a remove from the …
considerations of the day favoured the practice of laissez-faire economics, and the state lacked a consistent … to transport-policy issues was dominated by laissez-faire thinking, while railway com- panies were preoccupied … for the state to prevent abuse. In the age of laissez-faire economics, the mood of Parliament was not responsive … object equally to the pernicious system of laissez-faire, which allows and fosters the growth of huge … phenomenon of the railway amid the prevailing laissez-faire spirit of the age. the great railway mania …
CIRANO: Centre for Interuniversity Research and Analysis on Organizations · 11 November 2024 French
Si les avancées technologiques permettent désormais à de nombreux couples et individus de surmonter certains problèmes de fertilité et de réaliser leur désir d’avoir un enfant, l’intervention de l’État dans …
................................. 26 b) Le laissez-faire ........................................... … « relation » entre ces deux variables. b) LE LAISSEZ-FAIRE 22 A l’extrême, si β = 0, l’individu considère … souhaiteront pas engager de dépenses de PMA. Au laissez- faire, ils choisissent 𝑒 de manière à maximiser … condition d’arbitrage est identique à celle du laissez-faire, et 𝑒∗ ∗, > 𝑒/. Puisque le niveau d’habileté … condition est équivalente à celle obtenue au laissez-faire.30 En appendice, on montre aussi que 𝑒∗ > 𝑒∗ …
MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 September 2024 English
Ireland’s Great Famine produced Europe’s worst refugee crisis of the nineteenth century. More than 1.5 million people left Ireland, many ending up in Canada. Among the most vulnerable were nearly …
infectious disease, and ham-fisted ideologues tied to laissez-faire economics that created modern Ireland’s greatest … the ideology of political economy based on “laissez-faire” and simple self-interest doomed the Irish … bringing with them a zealous ad- herence to laissez-faire capitalism and a reluctance to engage the state … treasury, held on tightly to the dictums of laissez-faire, fearing that the redirection of Irish food … come and fetch her.32 The results of this laissez-faire policy were an unmitigated disaster. The poor …
MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 10 September 2024 English
In 1914, the Dominion of Newfoundland found itself at war in defense of the British Empire. On the home front, the war effort reshaped the relationship between citizens and the …
the form of charity. They also believed in laissez-faire economics and that the government had no right …
MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 3 September 2024 English
Founded over a century ago, the Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) is regarded as one of the most important institutional carriers of Canadian and American Mennonite identity. Generations of Mennonites and …
exagger- atedly slow. This combines with a laissez-faire approach to road rules by drivers who weave …
DDN: Dundurn Press · 13 August 2024 English
Canada’s social safety net is fraying. Why does it feel like everything is collapsing?Canada is at a crossroad. Neoliberalism has hollowed out and sold off the social services Canadians rely …
the freeINTrODuCTION • 5 individual and laissez- faire economics that places faith in mar- ket forces …
MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 June 2024 English
While scholarship on refugee migration tends to center on the Global North, most refugees actually reside in the Global South. This book shifts the focus, revealing how governments in the …
CIGI: Centre for International Governance Innovation · 11 June 2024 English
the authorities to ensure the safe and widespread use of currency was itself facilitated by private When it comes to what is considered money, the sector innovations in the production …
“Scottish Banking before 1845: A Model for Laissez-Faire?” Journal of Money, Credit Blinder, Alan S. …
MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 14 May 2024 English
What the World Might Look Like examines the way resilience stories have come to dominate the settler-colonial imagination and explores alternative approaches to resilience writing that instead offer decolonial models …
mainstream environmentalists converge with “laissez-faire liberals, Keynesian liberals and neoliberals” …
CIGI: Centre for International Governance Innovation · 10 May 2024 English
the final stages of the Uruguay Round of the The explicit mention of article 10bis of the Paris World Trade Organization (WTO) negotiations. [...] The of action for the holders …
permitting the EPA to disclose data for health, of laissez faire. The most dire implications safety and environmental …