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laissez faire

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laissez faire, laisser faire
a. the doctrine of unrestricted freedom in commerce, esp for private interests
b. (as modifier): a laissez-faire economy


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Everyone's superiors act according to national typecast - the English are particularly snotty about their Scottish underlings' behavior - and only the folks who coined the term laissez faire survive the brief peace relatively unscathed.
Our laissez faire attitude toward effectively fighting this bug shows what we are doing now is not working, we have lost control, and our patients are dying as a result,' Professor West said.
Ayn Rand's Objectivism, which includes an advocacy of laissez faire capitalism, is also nontheistic.
 
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