laissez-faire capitalism

collocation in English

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laissez-faire
noun[U]
uk
/ˌleɪ.seɪˈfeər/us
/ˌleɪ.seɪˈfer/
unwillingness to get involved in or influence other ...
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capitalism
noun[U]
uk
/ˈkæp.ɪ.təl.ɪ.zəm/us
/ˈkæp.ə.t̬əl.ɪ.zəm/
an economic and political system in which property, business, and industry are controlled by private owners rather than by the state, with the purpose of making ...
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History only constrains via the rules of political economy as embodied in nineteenth-centurylaissez-fairecapitalism.
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What is called monetarism today is simply old-fashionedlaissez-fairecapitalismdressed up in twentieth century garments.
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The second idea islaissez-fairecapitalismfor profit, laissez-faire for plantings, imports, watering down, adding wood shavings, fake wine, must imported to concoct a global wine gruel.
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Some independent research does not support all of the ideals oflaissez-fairecapitalism.
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The end of the war gave rise to a new mining elite oriented tolaissez-fairecapitalism.
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He was a strong advocate oflaissez-fairecapitalism.
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The book is neither a defense of purelaissez-fairecapitalism, nor is it an anti-capitalist polemic.
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In modern times, right-wing is sometimes used to describelaissez-fairecapitalism.
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Advocates oflaissez-fairecapitalismgenerally argue that permanent natural monopolies are merely theoretical.
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Austrian economics has been a major influence on some forms of libertarianism, in which laissez-fairecapitalismis considered to be the ideal economic system.
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The index uses a definition of economic freedom similar tolaissez-fairecapitalismand it has been more widely used than any measure of economic freedom.
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They claimed to provide a realistic economic alternative that was neitherlaissez-fairecapitalismnor communism.
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In other words, contrary to traditional ideas oflaissez-fairecapitalism, government interference in the free market is impossible, since governments are inextricably a part of the market as a whole.
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He believes thatlaissez-fairecapitalism, historically speaking, is an oxymoron but has no quarrel with anarcho-capitalists who use the term and distinguish it from actually existing capitalism.
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Roosevelt altered the nature of the party, away fromlaissez-fairecapitalism, and towards an ideology of economic regulation and insurance against hardship.
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