Dear all,

If one defines "laissez faire" position including 
free banking, the following categories are possible:

1. There are many economists supporting "laissez faire" principle
in general trade without implicating being a supporter of free banking.
This inconsistency was not felt by those taking this position, but 
was attacked in the free banking debate. 

2. There are also economists supporting economic liberalism in
general trade including banking and money matters. 
As is well-known, this case is typically Austrian. 

The following huge volumes would be of great help to 
know the free banking debate:

Free Banking, ed. by L. H. White, Vol. 1-3,
Edward Elgar, 1993.

However, if economic liberalism goes so far to implicate antagonistic
views to income tax in general, only very 
radical libertarians would be included in the camp. 

Cheers

Yukihiro Ikeda