Abstract
Only one hundred years ago the doctrine of laissez faire — of free trade within and between nations with an absolute minimum of government interference — was an almost unchallenged dogma, as it still is today among many conservative or liberal thinkers. Theoretically it has been backed up by the Hayek — Friedman school for the domestic economy and by the Ricardo — Harry Johnson school in the international economy.
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For one set of estimates, see J.W. Hare, The U.S. and World Development. Agenda for Action 1975. Overseas Development Council and Praeger Publishers, New York 1975, p. 214.
United Nations, Multinational Corporations in World Development. New York 1973, pp. 52 ff.
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Irma Adelman and Cynthia Taft Morris, “An Anatomy of Income Distribution Patterns in Developing Countries.” Development Digest, October 1971. Here quoted from: B. Fritsch, Wachstumsbegrenzung als Machtinstrument. Deutsche Verlag-Anstalt Stuttgart, 1974, p. 141. For more detailed figures for 43 nations, see also Irma Adelman and Cynthia Taft Morris, Economic Growth and Social Equity in Developing Countries. Stanford University Press, Standford, California, 1973, p. 152.
See Business Week, April 21, 1975, p. 38 or International Herald Tribune, April 5, 1975.
Soviet magazine NedeIja, May 20, 1975.
For a description of the Yugoslav foreign trade system, see R. Bicanic, Economic Policy in Socialist Yugoslavia. Cambridge University Press, 1973 ch. 8. This author gives an open unemployment of 8 per cent for 1965 and “disguised unemployment in some sectors of up to 20 per cent of employed labour, on top of this 300.000 workers worked abroad”. Op. cit. p. 139.
For a journalist report on this theme, see H. Smith, “The Russians Mean Business”, The Atlantic, December 1974, p. 45.
M. Seeger, “Moscow”, The Atlantic, Vol. 233, No. 2, February 1974, p. 6.
For another journalistic report of these problems, see H. E. Meyer, “Buying Spree Won’t Last”, Fortune, January 1975, p. 135.
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Adler-Karlsson, G. (1976). Laissez Faire ne se Laisse Plus Faire. In: The Political Economy of East-West-South Co-operation. Studien über Wirtschafts- und Systemvergleiche. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-37902-8_12
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