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L'Antisophiste: Laissez faire, laissez passer
The maxim laissez-nous faire is traditionally attributed to the merchant Legendre addressing Colbert some time towards the end of the seventeenth century. ('Que faut-il faire pour vous aider?' asked Colbert. 'Nous laisser faire' answered Legendre). But there is no doubt the first writer to ...
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Pourquoi le libéralisme n’est ni le laisser-faire, ni le laisser-aller – Archives de Contrepoints
». Dans son esprit, cela signifie : subventions, privilèges, monopoles, réglementations, fermeture des professions… La réaction de Legendre a laissé Colbert perplexe : « Laissez-nous faire ». Nous n’avons pas besoin de votre aide et de vos fonctionnaires, pas besoin que l’État ...
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The End of 'Laissez-faire'?
The earliest written expression of the maxim of laissez-nous faire, attributed by tradition to the merchant Legendre in response to a question by Colbert, dates back to around 1751 in the Journal Oeconomique of the Marquis d’Argenson: ‘Pour gouverner mieux, il faudrait gouverner moins …La vraie cause de leur (de nos fabriques) declin, c’est la protection outrée quon leur accorde …
Warin
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Dupont de Nemours & the origin of 'laissez faire, laissez passer'
study of Turgot’s éloge de Gournay shows that the expression Laissez-faire is really due · to Le Gendre, a merchant who attended a deputation to Colbert about 1680 to protest · against excessive state regulation of industry, and pleaded for liberty of action in the · phrase Laissez-nous faire.” Higgs defends the authority of this above quotation in the
abstention by governments from interfering in the workings of the free market
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Laissez-Faire and John Law’s Premature Invention of “Futures”
The term “laissez-faire” has ... asked how the French state could help promote commerce, Le Gendre replied simply: “Laissez-nous faire” (“leave it to us”)....
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What Is Laissez-Faire?
February 6, 2024 - The French finance minister, Jean-Baptiste Colbert, asked a merchant named M. Le Gendre what the state could do to promote industry. According to legend, the reply came: “Laissez-nous faire,” or “let it be.” This incident was reported in 1751 in the Journal Oeconomique by the free-trade ...
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Laissez faire _ AcademiaLab
The term laissez-faire probably ... and help promote their trade, Le Gendre replied simply: "Laissez-nous faire" ("Leave it to us" or "Let's do it"); the French verb that does not require an object....
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Adam Smith's Lost Legacy: Who First Coined the Phrase Laissez faire?
(what do you want from me to assist you?), with: 'laisser nous faire' (leave us alone). Colbert was the finance minister whose regulation of merchants was notorious for its oppressive licensing, inspection and control which personified French bureaucracy at its worst (plus ça change …). ...
Sciencetheory
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Laissez-faire (18TH CENTURY) – HKT Consultant
When the eager mercantilist minister asked how the French state could be of service to the merchants and help promote their commerce, Le Gendre replied simply: “Laissez-nous faire” (“Leave it to us” or “Let us do [it]”, the French verb not requiring an object).[8]
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Laissez faire - Pearson
La massima del laissez-faire risale alla fine del · XVII secolo ed è tradizionalmente attribuita al · mercante Le Gendre che, interpellato da Jean- Baptiste Colbert, ministro delle finanze del Regno · di Francia, su come lo Stato potesse aiutare · l’economia del Paese, rispose: «Nous laissez faire, nous laissez passer» («Lasciateci fare, lasciateci ·
Nilalienum
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Liberismo
Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot attribuisce al mercante Thomas Legendre l'espressione laissez nous faire, che questi avrebbe rivolto al ministro di Luigi XIV, Colbert, per protestare contro le eccessive regolamentazioni dell'industria e del commercio allora esistenti.