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The End of ‘Laissez-faire’? | SpringerLink
The earliest written expression ... 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 ...
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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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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 ...
abstention by governments from interfering in the workings of the free market
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Laissez-faire - Wikipedia
5 days ago - When the eager mercantilist minister ... Le Gendre replied simply: "Laissez-nous faire" ("Leave it to us" or "Let us do [it]", the French verb not requiring an object)....
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Laissez-Faire Economy Explained: Definition, Principles, and Criticism
August 14, 2025 - Laissez-faire, in French, literally ... government could help commerce, and Le Gendre replied, "Laissez-nous faire," meaning "let us do."...
Corporate Finance Institute
Laissez-faire - Corporate Finance Institute
November 22, 2023 - French industrialists used the term in response to the French government’s voluntary aid to promote business. The phrase is traditionally attributed to French businessman M. Le Gendre from when he responded to a Mercantilist minister, Jean-Baptiste Colbert. The laissez-faire theory mainly advocates government non-intervention.
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J.M. Keynes, 1926, The End of Laissez-Faire
The End of Laissez-Faire (1926) · THE END OF LAISSEZ-FAIRE
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The Market Economy and the French State
August 18, 2014 - “ ‘Laissez-nous faire et protégez-nous beaucoup.’ Pour une histoire des pratiques institutionnelles dans l’industrie française, XVIIIe-XIXe siècles.” In La France n’est-elle pas douée pour l’industrie?, edited by Louis Bergeron ...
Online Library of Liberty
Garnier on the Origin of the Term Laissez-faire | Online Library of Liberty
"It is well known," says Turgot, in his "Eulogy of de Gournay" already quoted, "what the reply of Legendre to Colbert was: Laissez nous faire, (Let us alone), to which Quesnay added, somewhat later: "Do not govern too much"
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Laissez-Colbert on JSTOR
Gregory M. Randolph, Laissez-Colbert, The American Economist, Vol. 61, No. 2 (October 2016), pp. 217-228