Concept
Laissez-faire
Overview
abstention by governments from interfering in the workings of the free market
Overview adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0; see the article history for authors).
Philosophers who discussed Laissez-faire
- Thomas Carlyle
- Adam Smith
- Baron d'Holbach
- Murray Rothbard
- Leonard Peikoff
- Ayn Rand
- Marquis de Condorcet
- Jeremy Bentham
- R. G. Collingwood
- José Ortega y Gasset
- Benedetto Croce
- Antoine Destutt de Tracy
- Morris Raphael Cohen
- Louis de Bonald
- Andrew Bernstein (philosopher)
- Stanisław Staszic
- Eugen Dühring
Related ideas
- Anarcho-capitalism
- Austrian school of economics
- Fascism
- Friedrich Hayek
- Free market
- Anarchism
- Chris Matthew Sciabarra
- Private property
- Individualist anarchism
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Statism
- James Madison
- Karl Marx
- Individual and group rights
- James Mill
- Constitutional Convention (United States)
- Labor theory of value
- Mutualism (economic theory)
- Adam Smith
- Middle Ages
- Thomas Sowell
- Great Depression
- New Deal
- Milton Friedman
Opposing perspectives
- Social democracy
- National conservatism
- Liberal Party (UK)
- The Wealth of Nations
- Social liberalism
- Charles Darwin
- Paternalistic conservatism
- Anarchism and capitalism
Place in the tradition
Part of American philosophy.