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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Fraser Institute · 8 February 2024 English

Western countries including Canada can learn from Singapore’s pro-growth policies, which have helped transform Singapore from a comparatively poor country in 1965, when it gained independence, into one of the …

following the principles of Adam Smith and laissez-faire at a time when Britain was still a protectionist while Singapore has never been a model of laissez-faire capitalism, it has been and continues to be


Option consommateurs · 5 February 2024

In particular, online platforms for the purchase of travel services or tickets tend to disavow responsibility in the transaction and leave it to the final service provider to determine the …

States have done, Canada has generally adopted a laissez-faire approach that has given rise to great uncertainty


Option consommateurs · 5 February 2024 French

Option consommateurs, 2023 5 Prévoir l’imprévu : les mesures d’indemnisation des consommateurs lors d’événements catastrophiques Résumé Lors de la pandémie de Covid-19, de nombreux commerçants dans l’impossibilité de fournir des …

Canada a généralement adopté une approche de laissez-faire qui a causé une grande incertitude quant aux


Transport Action Canada · 5 February 2024 English

Microsoft Word - Transport Action submission Budget 2024.docx WRITTEN SUBMISSION FOR FEDERAL BUDGET 2024 TRANSPORT ACTION CANADA January 2024 Transport Action Canada, Box/C. [...] 858, Station B, Ottawa, ON K1P …

f rail infrastructure, Canada has taken a  laissez‐faire approach to railways for the past 25 years. 


CIGI: Centre for International Governance Innovation · 2 February 2024 English

The ungoverned → Governance frameworks for governing data and growing ubiquity of generative AI is similar to, and and artificial intelligence (AI) must also just as troubling as, that of …

is a means of to personal data) against the laissez-faire model of acquiring data. Web scraping is a similar


Wilson Center Canada · 31 January 2024 English

We have multiple essays across the publication that focus on AGOA’s impact and renewal, as well as changing trade dynamics in Africa and globally, including the expansion of BRICS and …

challenge is that the United States has utilized a laissez-faire approach ceding responsibility for driving the


INSPQ: Institut national de santé publique du Québec · 30 January 2024 French

Il est normal de ressentir professionnel de la santé si, en plus d’être de l’incompréhension, de l’impuissance, de l’irritation inconsolable, votre bébé : et même de la frustration. [...] Le …

douloureux et vous risquez de blesser l’enfant. Laissez faire la nature : chez 90 % des garçons, elle sera


Ontario 360 · 19 December 2023 English

We also recognize the support of the University of Toronto and the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy as the Ontario 360 project’s intellectual and administrative home. [...] …

institutions. actions, but taken a largely ‘laissez-faire’ approach to its system stewardship role. Yet


UAP: University of Alberta Press · 1 December 2023 English

All the World’s a Mall is a memorable, hallucinatory travel adventure to five of the biggest malls in the world.

kind of liberalism that hardly conceals its laissez-faire attitudes, and to the inhabitants of these


CCPA: Canadian Centre For Policy Alternatives · 28 November 2023 English

Corporatization in the university context involves providing businesses with the means to socialize the risks and cost of research while privatizing the benefits, and to accrue advantages through the transfer …

technological change decide universities’ future. A laissez-faire approach will not work. Ontario’s public universities


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