laissez-faire

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1. alternativeAlternative form of laissez faire.

   Francis is saying that the environmental crisis is really a crisis in laissez-faire capitalism.

   2015 June 28, Paul Vallely, “The Pope's Ecological Vow”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

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   As the economic derivative of libertarianism, laissez-faire capitalism is an economics of life, of rationality.

   1971 January 10, Stan Lehr, Louis Rossetto, “The New Right Credo–Libertarianism”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

1. alternativeuncountableAlternative form of laissez faire.

   ‘How about we all try a policy of non-involvement for once? A little laissez-faire?’

   2000, Zadie Smith, White Teeth, London: Penguin Books, published 2001, →ISBN, page 436