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HES: QUERY -- "laissez-faire" versus "laisser-faire"?
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[log in to unmask] (Martin Staum)
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Fri Mar 31 17:18:58 2006
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Conventionally, the expression is attributed to an eighteenth-century government
bureaucrat, Vincent de Gournay, rather than to the Physiocrats themselves.
 
Martin S. Staum 
University of Calgary 
 
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