...pages of the work were likewise devoted to an exposition of the principle that "laissez faire . . . should be the general practice, every departure from...unless required by some great good, is a certain evil," it was no wonder that professional reviewers read nothing to which they could take exception, and that...

...classical economists. As John Stuart Mill said : "Laisser faire in short should be the general practice and every departure from it, unless required by some great good, is a certain evil." Only with respect to the solution of those fundamental problems which are the heritage of the War should...

...pages of the work were likewise devoted to an exposition of the principle that " laissez-faire . . . should be the general practice, every departure from...unless required by some great good, is a certain evil," it was no wonder that professional reviewers read nothing to which they could take exception, and that...

...against any unnecessary government activity. Mill, for example, says in this connection: Laisser-faire, in short, should be the general practice; every departure...unless required by some great good, is a certain evil. 1 Or again: We have observed that, as a general rule, the business of life is better performed when...

...recommend, government interference. "Laissez faire in short should be the general practice," he asserts. "Every departure from it, unless required by some great good, is a certain evil." The Doctrine of State Control The very establishment of a state, says Edwin Cannan, the English economist,...

...against any unnecessary government activity. Mill, for example, says in this connection : Laisser-faire, in short, should be the general practice; every departure...it, unless required by some great good, is a certain evil.1 Or again : We have observed that, as a general rule, the business of life is better performed...

...of circumstance demanded something more. "Laissez faire should be the general practice," said Mill, "every departure from it, unless required by some great good, is a certain evil." But the requirements of "some great good" had arrived in the emergence of far-reaching events. For...

...developed — their education is defective in one of its most important branches. '.5.3 "Letting alone, in short, should be the general practice; every departure...unless required by some great good, is a certain evil. "In all cases of helping there are two sets of consequences to 1>e considered, the consequences of...

...however, supplemented by a declaration in favour of laissez faire as a general rule. ' Letting alone, in short, should be the general practice : every departure...it, unless required by some great good, is a certain evil.'3 In regard to state action, as in so many other respects, Mill occupied a transitional position....

...minimum possible interference. As JS Mill wrote in his Principles of Political Economy, 'laissez-faire, in short, should be the general practice: every departure...it, unless required by some great good, is a certain evil'.101 The central and debatable point was, what 'great good' was sufficient to justify departure...