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Dear Friends,
J. M. Keynes introduced the following episode in "The End of Laissez-Faire".
"'Que faut-il pour vous aider?' asked Colbert,
'Nous laisser faire', answered Legendre."
(JMK, vol. IX, p. 278. n. 1.)
As far as I know, there is nothing wrong with this usage in French in the above
anecdote.Of course, it is another problem whether we can justify a tendency to use this
form instead of "laissez failre".
Keynes mentioned the following well-known pamphlet by August Oncken, but I do not know
whether or not his German was good enough to follow the details of the
pamphlet:
August Oncken, Die Maxime Laissez faire et laissez passer.
Interestingly enough, the title uses the form "laissez faire".And it seems to me that
Keynes mainly used the form "laissez-faire" in "The End of Laissez-Faire", including the
title. I did not check his usage in other papers and monographs.
Yukihiro Ikeda
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