Laissez-faire

• “Laissez-faire capitalism has made the average American wealthy beyond the dreams of the Medicis — what medieval satrap could even imagine air-conditioning, computers, DVD players, the stuff of ordinary life.”

  The Volokh Conspiracy » Would the Public Support “Cap and Refund”?

• “Laissez-faire" is a foreign term to them; "We know better" is what they believe in.”

  Economic Policy Diversity, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty

• “With the Israeli Laissez-faire mentality, and some failures found here and there, if there was a masterplan to kill all Palestinians, we all would have noticed it by now: gas chambers in the Erez checkpoint, firing squads and death marches from Hebron to Jenin - someone would have already noticed, no?”

  Global Voices in English » Israel: Reflections on the Holocaust Memorial Day and Durban II

• “Quoted in Elitsa Vucheva, “Laissez-faire capitalism is finished says France,” EUObserver.com, September 26, 2008.”

  Simon & Schuster: Zero-Sum Future

• “Laissez-faire to the point of doing nothing and waiting for someone to bail you out?”

  The Huffington Post: The 8 Truths About Weddings (That No One Ever Tells You)

• “This ruling harkens back to the Laissez-faire Supreme Court days when the Court took the 14th Amendment too literally — for corporations anyway, not blacks or women — and struck down minimum wage and maximum hour laws.”

  Think Progress » Citizens United Decision: ‘A Rejection Of The Common Sense Of The American People’

• “Maybe middle-class conservatives should stop listening to quitters (* cough* Palin * cough*) and propagandists while selling their souls to the Laissez-faire fat-cats.”

  Think Progress » Arizona Doctor Plans To Close His Office Because Of ‘Stress’ Caused By ‘Obamacare’

• “Laissez-faire economic policies dominated all political circles, even in the Democratic Party.”

  The Huffington Post: Garrett Johnson: Fairy Tales and History Rhymes

• “Laissez-faire is a phrase which means, essentially, let it happen.”

  2008 September 10 « Unambiguously Ambidextrous

• “Laissez-faire capitalism has been badly discredited by the financial meltdown (and Enron and accounting scandals before that); big government liberalism, where wise technocrats supposedly engineer good public policy on behalf of the public, has also run out steam, captured by special interest groups that block innovation.”

  The Huffington Post: Kety Esquivel: Insights from Ogilvy 360 DI Gov 2.0 Exchange Panelists

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