Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Although laissez-faire has been commonly associated with capitalism, there is a similar laissez-faire economic theory and system associated with socialism called left-wing laissez-faire, [71] [72] or free-market anarchism, also known as free-market anti-capitalism and free-market socialism to distinguish it from laissez-faire capitalism.
[1] [2] [3] After an introduction by Rand, the book is divided into two main sections. The first section, "Theory and History", contains essays that focus on the theoretical basis for capitalism and historical arguments related to it. This section includes essays arguing against common objections to capitalism.
As anarcho-capitalism puts laissez-faire economics before economic equality, it is commonly viewed as incompatible with the anti-capitalist and egalitarian tradition of anarchism. Although anarcho-capitalist theory implies the abolition of the state in favour of a fully laissez-faire economy, [157] it lies outside the tradition of anarchism.
Collective laissez faire is a term in legal and economic theory used to refer to the policy of a government to leave trade unions and employers free to collectively bargain with one another, with limited government intervention and oversight.
Economists generally specialize into either macroeconomics, broadly on the general scope of the economy as a whole, [1] and microeconomics, on specific markets or actors. [2] Within the macroeconomic mainstream in the United States, distinctions can be made between saltwater economists [a] and the more laissez-faire ideas of freshwater economists.
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... the laissez-faire economic consensus that had collapsed ... Monetarism is an economic theory commonly ...
Laissez-faire economists [who?] argue that government intervention is the cause of economic crises, and that left to its devices, the market will adjust efficiently. As for the implication that dislocations cannot cause persistent unemployment, some theories of economic cycles accept Say's law and seek to explain high unemployment in other ways ...
Different normative theories exist on the necessary and appropriate function of the state in a capitalist economy, with proponents of laissez-faire favoring a state limited to the provision of public goods and safeguarding private property rights while proponents of interventionism stress the importance of regulation, intervention and ...