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“The principle of laissez-faire may be safely trusted to in some things but in many more it is wholly inapplicable; and to appeal to it on all occasions savors more of the policy of a parrot than of a statesman or a philosopher.”

Quote by John Ramsay McCulloch

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John Ramsay McCulloch

John Ramsay McCulloch was a prominent economist, born on March 1, 1789, and died on November 11, 1864. He had a significant impact on the field of economics, particularly in the areas of international trade and monetary theory. more

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