Laissez-faire

Laissez -faire [ lɛsefɛʀ ] is borrowed from the French term and means " let's do " " just run " within the meaning of. Laissez -Faire consciously focuses on the waiver of regulation, limits or guidelines. This state of mind is often associated with liberalism.

Origin

The recommendation " Tant qu'on laisse faire la nature" ( "You 'll make nature " ) is found in 1707 in a memorandum of Pierre Le Pesant de Boisguilbert. " Laissez- nous faire" ( " Let us make " ) is the answer of the trader Legendre to Colbert on the question: " What can I do to help you?" The maxim of " laissez faire " appears in 1751 with René Louis d ' Argenson, and Anne Robert Jacques Turgot wrote in 1759 " laissez faire, laissez passer " Vincent de Gournay to. In all cases, there are calls to the State power, not to intervene in economic processes. With the motto " Laissez faire et laissez passer " ( ' Let do and let pass ' ) demanded the French physiocrats economic freedom and free trade rather than the then prevailing policy of mercantilism.

Use

Economics

Under the influence of the classical economists was laissez -faire to an economic model which relied on freedom of private initiative and sought to limit the role of the state to a minimum. Adam Smith, the founder of classical economics, has this phrase rarely used; is it true bad match with his man.

Laissez -faire is a name for an extreme form of liberalism ( synonymously known as Manchester liberalism ), according to the state best promotes economic development and prosperity of the people, by not engaging in economic events. An oriented to the principles of laissez -faire economic policy was particularly operated in the 19th century in Western Europe and the United States. The era of laissez -faire was marked by an expanding world trade, erratic growth of the industry, significant productivity gains in agriculture and increasing prosperity in the industrialized nations, on the other hand but also of economic crises and exploitation and impoverishment of the workers. It ended - although a trend towards a moderate state intervention and a protective tariff policy was previously recorded - only with the outbreak of the First World War.

Prominent opponents were proclaimed among others, Ferdinand Lassalle, who described the applied laissez- faire liberalism as " night watchman state ", John Maynard Keynes, the mid-1920s, "The End of Laissez -faire " ( published in 1926 ), and Alexander Rustow, the the laissez- faire liberalism, among others, his works "failure of economic liberalism " and " the religion of the market economy", was dedicated.

For a time, there were few representatives of a laissez- faire liberalism; of various neo-liberals, they were sometimes referred to as " old liberal " or " paläoliberal ".

Ludwig von Mises pointed out that " laissez faire" and " laissez-passer " belong together, so that one can not separate from the demand for the opening of borders, the demand for freedom of trade.

Mid -1960s, the neo-liberal thinking and neoliberalism radicalized turned back to the laissez- faire. The less government, the better the market, was the credo of the younger Chicago School of Milton Friedman. Even Friedrich August von Hayek called by now that the " competition as a discovery procedure " should not be disturbed by government intervention. Hayek is of the view that the phrase " laissez -faire " had always been misleading.

" Liberalism does not teach that we are to leave the things themselves. It is based on the belief that where there is a real performance competition is possible, this method of economic governance is superior to any other. He does not deny, but even places particular stress on the fact that a carefully designed framework is a prerequisite for a salutary functioning of competition and that both the current as the earlier legal standards of perfection are far away. "

Education

In the education or in education " laissez -faire " means introduced by Kurt Lewin term for a style of education in which the child is left to its own, it " can do ". Education is seen here as an illegitimate action against children, accordingly omitted targeted educational measures. This view was then transferred to leadership styles. The laissez -faire parenting is not to be confused with the anti-authoritarian education.

Philosophy

From the Chinese philosophy you know the principle of non-action or "doing without doing" (wu wei), which are widely described in the Tao Te Ching of Laozi as the " ideal of the wise " Daoism impressed. According to the religious scholar and expert in Eastern philosophy, Alan Watts considers that that principle should not be confused with laissez-faire, or mere passivity, but refers to informal action that makes natural laws available. A similar way of thinking about other, and west influenced doctrines as the permaculture.