Citations:laissez faire

English citations of laissez faire

Noun

• 1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, chapter 6, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, book I (Proem), page 29:

  That “Laissez-faire”, “Supply-and-demand,” “Cash-payment for the sole nexus,” and so forth, were not, are not, and will never be, a practicable Law of Union for a Society of Men.

Adjective

• 2009, Charles K. Rowley, Nathanael Smith, Economic Contractions in the United States, page 61:

  State capitalism rather than laissez-faire capitalism is the primary source of the moral failings which are now the object of populist anger that is being fueled, ironically, by the very politicians who were the chief culprits in stoking the house-price bubble that caused the financial crisis.