Paper Topic:

Is laissez faire economics preferable to government regulation and intervention?

AFFIRMATIVE

Laissez faire is over Government Regulation and Intervention because of the fact that it allows the pure forces to determine the market . In an ideal setting , the needs of supply and demand will be able to adjust to each other to arrive at an optimal price . According to Adam Smith in his book entitled , The Wealth of Nations , discusses the basic precept of the invisible hand in that in a free market a person who chooses to be greedy and pursue his own interests in invariably also furthering the good of

the entire community . This basically argues that if all individuals acted according to what would benefit them the end result would still be that the greatest good for everyone would occur Individuals acting according to what they see is the best course of action for them and contributing not only to their personal gain but the gain of the community as well

Therefore , even assuming that there are other forces , outside of government intervention , that are at work in a Laissez Faire Structure it is reasonable to believe that under the current circumstances Laissez Faire Structure would be the better one to implement because of the recent market crashes . Though governments all over the world are struggling to keep their economies afloat , it is increasingly clear that the problem could have been avoided without unnecessary government rules and regulations . Under a free market system , this global economic meltdown could have perhaps been averted

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