laissez-faire

But what appeared to most upset the right-wing influencer was a text message he had received, supposedly from an unnamed acquaintance, that alleged that Federal Emergency Management Agency workers were taking a laissez-faire attitude on disaster relief.

He argues that this is why the US authorities have been “largely laissez-faire in their approach to chasing tax optimization schemes that Dublin has been developing over decades”.

Schwarzenegger — a strong environmentalist with a laissez-faire attitude on social issues — stood well to the left of the California Republican base.

Hayek, like other founders of neoliberal economic theory such as Wilhelm Roepke, claimed that their championing of laissez-faire was a remedy for the horrific wars and state oppression that plagued Europe between 1914 and 1945.

His laissez-faire views were so uncompromising that even Milton Friedman, most people’s idea of a hardcore libertarian, considered his thinking overly inflexible.