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- noun The policy of
laissez faire .
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Examples
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And, throughout the world, democracy and laissez-faireism were being rejected in favor of one-man or one-party dictatorships.
The Last Empress Hannah Pakula 2009
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The society that emerged in the 2170s was therefore dramatically different from the freewheeling laissez-faireism of fifty years earlier.
Rama Revisited Clarke, Arthur C. 1989
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Just as the Depression created the political and psychological conditions for Franklin Roosevelt's transformation of America from laissez-faireism to the beginnings of the welfare state, the current crisis gives Obama the political space to move the still relatively modest American welfare state toward
Redskins Insider Podcast -- The Washington Post Charles Krauthammer 2010
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