Laissez-faire
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Laissez-faire (
/ˌlɛseɪˈfɛərʔ/, French: [lɛsefɛʁ] (
listen)) is an economic environment in which transactions
between private parties are free from tariffs, government subsidies, and enforced monopolies, with only enough
government regulations sufficient to protect property rights against theft and aggression. The phrase laissez-faire is
French and literally means "let [them] do", but it broadly implies "let it be," "let them do as they will," or "leave it
alone." Scholars generally believe a laissez-faire state or a completely free market has never existed.[1][2]
Etymology
According to historical legend, the phrase stems from a meeting in about 1680 between the powerful French finance
minister Jean-Baptiste Colbert and a group of French businessmen led by a certain M. Le Gendre. When the eager
mercantilist minister asked how the French state could be of service to the merchants and help promote their
commerce, Le Gendre replied simply "Laissez-nous faire" ("Leave us be", lit. "Let us do").
The anecdote on the Colbert-Le Gendre meeting was related in a 1751 article in the Journal Oeconomique by the
French minister and champion of free trade, René de Voyer, Marquis d'Argenson—which happens to also be the
phrase's first known appearance in print.[3] Argenson himself had used the phrase earlier (1736) in his own diaries, in
a famous outburst:
Laissez faire, telle devrait être la devise de toute puissance publique, depuis que le monde est civilisé ...
Détestable principe que celui de ne vouloir grandir que par l'abaissement de nos voisins! Il n'y a que la
méchanceté et la malignité du coeur de satisfaites dans ce principe, et l’intérêt y est opposé. Laissez faire,
morbleu! Laissez faire!! [4]
(Trans: "Leave it be, that should be the motto of all public powers, as the world is civilized ... That we cannot
grow except by lowering our neighbors is a detestable notion! Only malice and malignity of heart is satisfied
with such a principle and our (national) interest is opposed to it. Leave it be, for heaven's sake! Leave it be!)
The laissez faire slogan was popularized by Vincent de Gournay, a French intendant of commerce in the 1750s.
Gournay was an ardent proponent of the removal of restrictions on trade and the deregulation of industry in France.
Gournay was delighted by the Colbert-LeGendre anecdote,[5] and forged it into a larger maxim all his own: "Laissez
faire et laissez passer" ('Let do and let pass'). His motto has also been identified as the longer "Laissez faire et laissez
passer, le monde va de lui même!" ("Let do and let pass, the world goes on by itself!"). Although Gournay left no
written tracts on his economic policy ideas, he had immense personal influence on his contemporaries, notably the
Physiocrats, who credit both the laissez-faire slogan and the doctrine to Gournay.[6]
Before d'Argenson or Gournay, P.S. de Boisguilbert had enunciated the phrase "on laisse faire la nature" ('let nature
run its course').[7] D'Argenson himself, during his life, was better known for the similar but less-celebrated motto
"Pas trop gouverner" ("Govern not too much").[8] But it was Gournay's use of the 'laissez-faire' phrase (as
popularized by the Physiocrats) that gave it its cachet.
In England, a number of "free trade" and "non-interference" slogans had been coined already during the 17th
century. But the French phrase laissez faire gained currency in English-speaking countries with the spread of
Physiocratic literature in the late 18th century. The Colbert-LeGendre anecdote was relayed in George Whatley's
1774 Principles of Trade (co-authored with Benjamin Franklin) - which may be the first appearance of the phrase in
an English language publication.[9]
Notably, classical economists, such as Thomas Malthus, Adam Smith[10] and David Ricardo, did not use the phrase.
Jeremy Bentham used the term, but it was probably James Mill's reference to the "laissez-faire" maxim (together
with "pas trop gouverner") in an 1824 entry for the Encyclopædia Britannica that really brought the term into wider
English usage. With the advent of the Anti-Corn Law League, the term received much of its (English) meaning.[11]
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Adam Smith first used the metaphor of an "invisible hand" in his book The Theory of Moral Sentiments to describe
the unintentional effects of economic self-organization from economic self-interest.[12] Some have characterized this
metaphor as one for laissez-faire,[13] but Smith never actually used the term himself.[10]
History of laissez-faire debate
China
During the Han, Tang, Song, and Ming dynasties, Chinese scholar-officials would often debate about the
interference the government should have in the economy, such as setting monopolies in lucrative industries and
instating price controls. Such debates were often heated with Confucian factions tending to oppose extensive
government controls and "Reform" factions favoring such moves. During the Han and Tang, emperors sometimes
instated government monopolies in times of war, and abolished them later when the fiscal crisis had passed.
Eventually, in the later Song and Ming dynasties, state monopolies were abolished in every industry and were never
reinstated during the length of that dynasty, with the government following laissez-faire policies. During the Manchu
Qing Dynasty, state monopolies were reinstated, and the government interfered heavily in the economy; many
scholars believe this prevented China from developing capitalism.[14]
Europe
In Europe the laissez faire movement was first widely promoted by the physiocrats, a movement that originated with
Jean-Claude Vincent de Gournay, a successful merchant. Gournay held that the government should allow the laws of
nature to govern economic activity, with the state only intervening to protect life, liberty, and property. His ideas
were taken up by Francois Quesnay and Turgot, Baron de l'Aulne. Quesnay had the ear of the King of France, Louis
XV, and in 1754 persuaded him to give laissez faire a try. On September 17, the King abolished all tolls and
restraints on the sale and transport of grain, and for more than a decade the experiment was a success. But then, in
1768, there was a poor harvest, and the cost of bread rose so high that there was widespread starvation, while
merchants exported grain in order to obtain the best profit. In 1770, the edict allowing free trade was revoked.[15]
Many of the ideas of the physiocrats spread throughout Europe, and were adopted to a greater or lesser extent in
Sweden, Tuscany, Spain, and after 1776 in the newly created United States. Adam Smith, author of The Wealth of
Nations, met Quesnay and acknowledged his influence.[16]
In Britain, in 1843, the newspaper The Economist was founded and became an influential voice for laissez-faire
capitalism.[17] Laissez-faire advocates opposed food aid for famines occurring within the British empire; in 1847,
referring to the famine then underway in Ireland, The Economist's founder James Wilson wrote that "It is no man's
business to provide for another".[18] However, The Economist campaigned against the Corn Laws that protected
landlords in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland against competition from less expensive foreign
imports of cereal products. The Great Famine in Ireland in 1845 led to the repeal of the Corn Laws in 1846. The
tariffs on grain which kept the price of bread artificially high were repealed.[19] However, repeal of the Corn Laws
came too late to stop Irish famine, partly because it was done in stages over three years.[20]
A group calling itself the Manchester Liberals, to which Richard Cobden and Richard Wright belonged, were
staunch defenders of free trade, and their work was carried on, after the death of Richard Cobden in 1866, by The
Cobden Club.[21] In 1867, a free trade treaty was signed between Britain and France, after which several of these
treaties were signed among other European countries.
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United States
Frank Bourgin's 1989 study of the Constitutional Convention shows that direct government involvement in the
economy was intended by the Founders.[22] The reason for this was the economic and financial chaos the nation
suffered under the Articles of Confederation. The goal was to ensure that dearly won political independence was not
lost by being economically and financially dependent on the powers and princes of Europe. The creation of a strong
central government able to promote science, invention, industry and commerce, was seen as an essential means of
promoting the general welfare and making the economy of the United States strong enough for them to determine
their own destiny.
In his 1973 study of the economic principles established at the foundation of the United States, E.A.J. Johnson
wrote:
The general view, discernible in contemporaneous literature, was that the responsibility of government should
involve enough surveillance over the enterprise system to ensure the social usefulness of all economic activity.
It is quite proper, said Bordley, for individuals to “choose for themselves” how they will apply their labor and
their intelligence in production. But it does not follow from this that “legislators and men of influence” are
freed from all responsibility for giving direction to the course of national economic development. They must,
for instance, discountenance the production of unnecessary commodities of luxury when common sense
indicates the need for food and other essentials. Lawmakers can fulfill their functions properly only when they
“become benefactors to the public”; in new countries they must safeguard agriculture and commerce,
encourage immigration, and promote manufactures. Admittedly, liberty “is one of the most important blessings
which men possess,” but the idea that liberty is synonymous with complete freedom from restraint “is a most
unwise, mistaken apprehension.” True liberty demands a system of legislation that will lead all members of
society “to unite their exertions” for the public welfare. It should therefore be the policy of government to aid
and foster certain activities or kinds of business that strengthen a nation, even as it should be the duty of
government to repress “those fashions, habits, and practices, which tend to weaken, impoverish, and corrupt
the people.” [23]
Notable examples of government intervention in the period prior to the Civil War include the establishment of the
Patent Office in 1802; the establishment of the Office of Standard Weights and Measures in 1830; the creation of the
Coast and Geodetic Survey in 1807 and other measures to improve river and harbor navigation; the various Army
expeditions to the west, beginning with Lewis and Clark's Corps of Discovery in 1804 and continuing into the 1870s,
almost always under the direction of an officer from the Army Corps of Topographical Engineers, and which
provided crucial information for the overland pioneers that followed; the assignment of Army Engineer officers to
assist or direct the surveying and construction of the early railroads and canals; the establishment of the First Bank of
the United States and Second Bank of the United States as well as various protectionist measures (e.g., the tariff of
1828). Several of these proposals met with serious opposition, and required a great deal of horse trading to be
enacted into law. For instance, the First National Bank would not have reached the desk of President George
Washington in the absence of an agreement that was reached between Alexander Hamilton and several southern
members of Congress to locate the capital in the District of Columbia. In contrast to Hamilton and the Federalists
was the opposing political party the Democratic-Republicans.
Most of the early opponents of laissez-faire capitalism in the United States subscribed to the American School. This
school of thought was inspired by the ideas of Alexander Hamilton, who proposed the creation of a
government-sponsored bank and increased tariffs to favor northern industrial interests. Following Hamilton's death,
the more abiding protectionist influence in the antebellum period came from Henry Clay and his American System.
In the early 19th century, "it is quite clear that the laissez faire label is an inappropriate one" to apply to the
relationship between the US government and industry.[24] In the mid-19th century, the United States followed the
Whig tradition of Economic nationalism, which included increased state control, regulation and macroeconomic
development of infrastructure.[25] Public works such as the provision and regulation transportation such as railroads
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took effect. The Pacific Railway Acts provided the development of the First Transcontinental Railroad.[25] In order
to help pay for its war effort in the American Civil War, the United States government imposed its first personal
income tax, on August 5, 1861, as part of the Revenue Act of 1861 (3% of all incomes over US $800; rescinded in
1872).
Following the Civil War, the movement towards a mixed economy accelerated. Protectionism increased with the
McKinley Tariff of 1890 and the Dingley Tariff of 1897. Government regulation of the economy expanded with the
enactment of the Interstate Commerce Act of 1887 and the Sherman Anti-trust Act.
The Progressive Era saw the enactment of more controls on the economy, as evidenced by the Wilson
Administration's New Freedom program.
Following World War I and the Great Depression, the United States turned to a mixed economy, which combined
free enterprise with a progressive income tax, and in which, from time to time, the government stepped in to support
and protect American industry from competition from overseas. For example in the 1980s the government sought to
protect the automobile industry by "voluntary" export restrictions from Japan.[26] Pietro S. Nivola wrote in 1986:
By and large, the comparative strength of the dollar against major foreign currencies has reflected high U.S.
interest rates driven by huge federal budget deficits. Hence, the source of much of the current deterioration of
trade is not the general state of the economy, but rather the government's mix of fiscal and monetary policies–
that is, the problematic juxtaposition of bold tax reductions, relatively tight monetary targets, generous military
outlays, and only modest cuts in major entitlement programs. Put simply, the roots of the trade problem and of
the resurgent protectionism it has fomented are fundamentally political as well as economic.[27]
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[2] http:/ / www. econlib. org/ library/ Enc/ Capitalism. html "A fully free economy, true laissez-faire, never has existed...", Robert Hessen,
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1763 and Ephémérides du Citoyen, 1767.), the Comte d'Albon (,"Éloge Historique de M. Quesnay", Nouvelles Ephémérides Économiques,
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[7] "Tant, encore une fois, qu'on laisse faire la nature, on ne doit rien craindre de pareil", P.S. de Boisguilbert, 1707, Dissertation de la nature des
richesses, de l'argent et des tributs.
[8] DuPont de Nemours, op cit, p.258. Oncken (op.cit) and Keynes (op.cit.) also credit the Marquis d'Argenson with the phrase "Pour gouverner
mieux, il faudrait gouverner moins" ("To govern best, one needs to govern less"), possibly the source of the famous "That government is best
which governs least" motto popular in American circles, attributed variously to Thomas Paine, Thomas Jefferson and Henry Thoreau.
[9] Whatley's Principles of Trade are reprinted in Works of Benjamin Franklin, Vol.2, p.401 (http:/ / books. google. com/
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[12] Andres Marroquin, Invisible Hand: The Wealth of Adam Smith, The Minerva Group, Inc., 2002, ISBN 1-4102-0288-7, page 123.
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[16] Will & Ariel Durant, Rousseau and the Revolution, p. 76, Simon and Schuster, 1967, ISBN 067163058X.
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Further reading
• Bourgin, Frank The Great Challenge: The Myth of Laissez-Faire in the Early Republic (George Braziller Inc.,
1989; Harper & Row, 1990)
• Wu-Wei in Europe. A Study of Eurasian Economic Thought (http://hsozkult.geschichte.hu-berlin.de/daten/
2005/gerlach_christian_wu-wei.pdf) PDF (773 KB) by Christian Gerlach, London School of Economics –
March 2005
• John Maynard Keynes, The end of laissez-faire (1926) (http://www.panarchy.org/keynes/laissezfaire.1926.
html)
• Carter Goodrich, Government Promotion of American Canals and Railroads, 1800–1890 (http://www.questia.
com/PM.qst?a=o&d=100695027) (Greenwood Press, 1960)
• Goodrich, Carter. "American Development Policy: the Case of Internal Improvements," Journal of Economic
History, 16 (1956), 449–60. in JSTOR
• Goodrich, Carter. "National Planning of Internal Improvements," ;;Political Science Quarterly, 63 (1948),
16–44. in JSTOR
• Johnson, E.A.J., The Foundations of American Economic Freedom: Government and Enterprise in the Age of
Washington (University of Minnesota Press, 1973)
• Sidney Webb (1889). "Fabian Essays in Socialism - The Basis of Socialism - The Period of Anarchy" (http://
www.econlib.org/library/YPDBooks/Shaw/shwFS1.html#I.1.18). Library of Economics and Liberty.
"Women working half naked in the coal mines; young children dragging trucks all day in the foul atmosphere of
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the underground galleries; infants bound to the loom for fifteen hours in the heated air of the cotton mill, and kept
awake only by the overlooker's lash; hours of labor for all, young and old, limited only by the utmost capabilities
of physical endurance; complete absence of the sanitary provisions necessary to a rapidly growing population:
these and other nameless iniquities will be found recorded as the results of freedom of contract and complete
laissez faire in the impartial pages of successive blue-book reports."
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