Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A letting alone; a general non-interference with individual freedom of action; the let-alone principle or policy in government and political economy.
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Examples
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Sounds like crazy Wall Street-style laisser-faire!
Matthew Yglesias » Linda Chavez Sees Social Democracy Around the Corner 2009
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I should have recognized that my daughter needed a controlled aproach to eating, not a laisser-faire approach.
Dr. Sharma’s Obesity Notes » Blog Archive » Best of 2009 2009
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We are supposed to be a nation built upon an antipathy to government - an anti-statist creed that Seymour Martin Lipset once said could "be described in five words: liberty, egalitarianism, individualism, populism and laisser-faire."
David Coates: The Strengths and Weaknesses of American Exceptionalism David Coates 2011
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We are supposed to be a nation built upon an antipathy to government - an anti-statist creed that Seymour Martin Lipset once said could "be described in five words: liberty, egalitarianism, individualism, populism and laisser-faire."
David Coates: The Strengths and Weaknesses of American Exceptionalism David Coates 2011
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Tangential — on economist. com, Google reports 300-some hits for “laissez-faire” and 180-some for “laisser-faire”.
Annals of Strange Prescriptions: Under the circumstances « Motivated Grammar 2010
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On the contrary – the effects of liberalisation in the Netherlands have been so severe, not least in terms of increased crime with more high-level drugs-linked criminality per head than anywhere else in Europe, and with a near tripling of cannabis use amongst 18-20 year-olds, that the Dutch government was forced to toughen up at least some elements of its laisser-faire approach.
Giving evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, Tony Blair said: “I... 2010
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It suggests an attitude of laisser-faire, not active engagement.
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Tea Partiers may yell a lot, but in fact, their policy prescriptions are very laisser-faire.
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On the contrary – the effects of liberalisation in the Netherlands have been so severe, not least in terms of increased crime with more high-level drugs-linked criminality per head than anywhere else in Europe, and with a near tripling of cannabis use amongst 18-20 year-olds, that the Dutch government was forced to toughen up at least some elements of its laisser-faire approach.
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On the contrary – the effects of liberalisation in the Netherlands have been so severe, not least in terms of increased crime with more high-level drugs-linked criminality per head than anywhere else in Europe, and with a near tripling of cannabis use amongst 18-20 year-olds, that the Dutch government was forced to toughen up at least some elements of its laisser-faire approach.
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