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unusual facts about laisser-faire



1631 in poetry

William Lisle, The Faire Aethiopian, published anonymously; verse translation of Heliodorus, Aethiopica)

Bryan Ingham

For his National Service he joined the RAF, and spent his time in Germany as an airman employed in a number of what he regarded as tedious tasks before ending up in charge of the stores at RAF Celle under a laissez-faire sergeant, where he became an enthusiastic operator of the ways and means act.

Canadian federal election, 1979

Social Credit attempted to rally the separatist and nationalist vote: Canadian flags were absent at its campaign kick-off rally, and the party's slogan was C'est à notre tour ("It's our turn"), which was reminiscent of the popular separatist anthem Gens du pays that includes the chorus, "C'est votre tour, de vous laisser parler d'amour".

Cheb Hasni

His distinctive "Raï love" style soon inspired imitators, notably Cheb Nasro, who launched his career in 1988 with the hit "Pour te faire plaisir".

Constance Binney

She made her Broadway theatre debut in 1917 and the following year appeared with her actress sister, Faire Binney(1898–1957), in the Maurice Tourneur silent film, Sporting Life based on the play by Cecil Raleigh and Seymour Hicks.

Cyclical theory

The values of Private Interest bear strong resemblance to Adam Smith’s theories of the laissez-faire economy (free market) and also the invisible hand.

Discourses on Salt and Iron

The previous emperor, Emperor Wu, had reversed the laissez-faire policies of his predecessors imposed a wide variety of state interventions, such as monopolies on salt and iron, price stabilization schemes, and taxes on capital, which had sparked fierce debate.

Et s'il fallait le faire

"Et s'il fallait le faire" (And if it had to be done) is a song by French singer Patricia Kaas and the first single off her album Kabaret.

Fabulous Trobadors

Their first album, Èra pas de faire (In English, We shouldn't have done it), was released on Massilia Sound System's Roker Promocion label.

FAIRE-Seq

FAIRE-seq data are mapped to the human genome assembly and displayed as part of the ENCODE project at the UCSC Genome Browser.

Francisco Oscar Lamolina

He was known in Argentine First Division for his laissez-faire style into the field, completely opposed to the strictness of Javier Castrilli's.

Frieda Ekotto

The final chapter performs a close reading of Dany Laferrière's Comment faire l'amour avec un nègre sans se fatiguer/How to Make Love to a Negro without Getting Tired to explore the role of sexuality in the formation of alterity.

It Takes a Family

Writing for American Prospect Online, reviewer Mark Schmitt argues that the book fails to present a unified case for how social conservatism is served by laissez-faire economic policies, yet urges readers to commit to both; he also asserts that the author offers several solutions already proposed by his opposition, while criticizing the opposition's failure to provide solutions.

Josiah Tucker

The policy pleased nobody in England, and Tucker, though his views were approved in later years by many of the laisser-faire economists, was for a time treated as a Cassandra, a name under which he published in the newspapers.

Laissez Faire Books

Before being taken over by ISIL, Laissez Faire Books had its own book publishing arm: Fox & Wilkes Books, named after two eighteenth-century British classical liberals, Charles James Fox and John Wilkes.

Light verb

Examples in other languages include the Yiddish geb in geb a helf (literally give a help, "help"); the French faire in faire semblant (lit. make seeming, "pretend"); the Hindi nikal paRA (lit. leave fall, "start to leave"); and the bǎ construction in Chinese.

March of Cambreadth

John Ringo has (mis)quoted March of Cambreadth in his novels Hell's Faire, Ghost and There Will Be Dragons as well as in the second Looking-Glass book, Vorpal Blade.

Money and the ethnic vote

:(Crowd singing: Gens du pays, c'est votre tour / De vous laisser parler d'amour)

Owenism

His thought was rooted in seventeenth century English "moral economy" ideals of “fair exchange, just price, and the right to charity.” "Utopian socialist” economic thought such as Owen’s was a reaction to the laissez-faire impetus of Malthusian Poor Law reform. Claeys notes that "Owen’s ‘Plan’ began as grandiose but otherwise not exceptionally unusual workhouse scheme to place the unemployed poor in newly built rural communities.

Pennsylvania Renaissance Faire

The Pennsylvania Renaissance Faire is a Renaissance fair occurring over 12 weekends from early-August through late-October on the grounds of the Mount Hope Estate and Winery in Manheim, Pennsylvania.

Pietro Verri

This was followed by the Meditazioni sull'economia politica ("Meditations on Economic Politics", 1771), where he enunciated the laws regulating supply and demand (also in mathematical form), explained the role of money as "universal good", and supported laissez-faire in trade, arguing that balance of payments equilibrium is achieved by GDP adjustments rather than by exchange rate adjustments; as such, he was a precursor of both Adam Smith and marginalism.

Rizz-Wa-Faire

Rizz-Wa-Faire is the third solo album by Ralph Tresvant of New Edition.

Saint-Pol-Roux

It was under this title that he was a dedicatee of André Breton's Clair de Terre (also dedicated to "ceux qui comme lui s'offrent le magnifique plaisir de se faire oublier (sic)", or "those who like him offered themselves the great pleasure of making themselves forgotten"), and Vercors's Le Silence de la mer ( calling him "le poète assassiné", or "the assassinated poet").

Science Faire

Science Faire is a compilation album by indie pop Elephant 6 group The Apples in Stereo.

Shlomo Grofman

Shlomo Grofman is the Active Chairman of Faire Fund (First American Israeli Real Estate Fund) which he established together with former Israeli Ambassador Zalman Shoval.

Social Credit Party of Canada

Social Credit attempted to rally the separatist and nationalist vote: Canadian flags were absent at its campaign kick-off rally, and the party's slogan was C'est à notre tour ("It's our turn"), which was reminiscent of the popular separatist anthem "Gens du pays" that includes the chorus, "C'est à votre tour de vous laisser parler d'amour".

Stern Electronics, Inc. v. Kaufman

Capcom U.S.A., Inc. v. Data East Corp (Fighter's History): scenery and characters deemed commonplace or standard are not copyrightable under the doctrine of scenes-à-faire.

Data East USA, Inc. v. Epyx, Inc. (International Karate): scenery and characters deemed commonplace or standard are not copyrightable under the doctrine of scenes-à-faire.

Swinging Radio England

It states that the Laissez Faire became the MV Earl J. Conrad, Jr., owned by the Zapata companies which in the 1990s announced plans to turn a new Internet service called "ZAP!" into a bigger company than Yahoo!.

The Life of Reason

The American Dream and the dream of "laissez-faire industrialism" is a lie, and is responsible for the endless struggles of modern man.

Third Way

In the United States, "Third Way" adherents embrace fiscal conservatism to a greater extent than traditional social liberals, and advocate some replacement of welfare with workfare, and sometimes have a stronger preference for market solutions to traditional problems (as in pollution markets), while rejecting pure laissez-faire economics and other libertarian positions.


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