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  2. Milton Friedman - Wikipedia

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    With George Stigler, Friedman was among the intellectual leaders of the Chicago school of economics, a neoclassical school of economic thought associated with the work of the faculty at the University of Chicago that rejected Keynesianism in favor of monetarism until the mid-1970s, when it turned to new classical macroeconomics heavily based on ...

  3. Anne Robert Jacques Turgot - Wikipedia

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    It was during this period that he met the leaders of the "physiocratic" school, Quesnay and Vincent de Gournay, and with them Dupont de Nemours, the abbé Morellet and other economists. [6] In 1743 and 1756, he accompanied Gournay, the intendant of commerce, during Gournay's tours of inspection in the provinces.

  4. Laissez-faire - Wikipedia

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    Laissez-faire (/ ˌ l ɛ s eɪ ˈ f ɛər / LESS-ay-FAIR; or / l ɑː ˌ s ɛ z ˈ f ɛ. j ə r /, from French: laissez faire [lɛse fɛːʁ] ⓘ, lit. ' let do ' ) is a type of economic system in which transactions between private groups of people are free from any form of economic interventionism (such as subsidies or regulations ).

  5. John Maynard Keynes - Wikipedia

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    1926 Laissez-Faire and Communism (New Republic) 1929 Can Lloyd George Do It? (Nation and Athenaeum) 1930 Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren (Nation and Athenaeum) 1930 The Great Slump of 1930 (Nation and Athenæum) 1931 The End of the Gold Standard (Sunday Express) 1933 The Means to Prosperity (Macmillan and Co.)

  6. Andrew Carnegie - Wikipedia

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    Andrew Carnegie's political and economic focus during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century was the defense of laissez-faire economics. Carnegie emphatically resisted government intrusion in commerce, as well as government-sponsored charities.

  7. Chicago school of economics - Wikipedia

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    The Revival of Laissez-Faire in American Macroeconomic Theory: A Case Study of Its Pioneers. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar. ISBN 1-84064-606-3. McCloskey, Deirdre N. (2010). Bourgeois dignity: Why economics can't explain the modern world. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0226556659. Miller, H. Laurence Jr. (1962).

  8. 64-year-old Simon Cowell, who doesn’t work Fridays, says he’s ...

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    Cowell's new laissez-faire attitude has left him with few regrets. One glaring frustration, however, is not owning the naming rights to One Direction, the boy band formed out of The X Factor in 2010.

  9. History of capitalist theory - Wikipedia

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    The other was the political doctrine of laissez-faire economics, namely that all coercive government regulation of the market represents unjustified interference, and that economies would perform best with government only playing a defensive role in order to ensure the operation of free markets.