Why laissez faire is bad

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Sign Up. What are your concerns? Verywell Mind uses only high-quality sources, including peer-reviewed studies, to support the facts within our articles. The latter — who triumphed as world orthodoxy from about onwards — simply took the metaphor of factory-owner and squire to its logical, absurd conclusion: if everything is privatised — and therefore subject to property rights — externalities will be resolved.

The result has been a ruling orthodoxy which encourages the further privatisation of commons - water, for example - resulting in both an increased spoliation of natural resources, and their transfer into the hands of an ever-shrinking elite. This is, moreover, a global elite. By confronting a common enemy in neoliberalism, environment and society are united in a common cause. The principle of self-organisation must be salvaged from the laissez-faire perversion, and restored in a more authentic form: reversing the erosion of commons, and instead expanding them, in their role as stewards of nature.

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The Ecologist is owned and published by the Resurgence Trust. Thank you. Donate here. Breadcrumb Home Comment. What is wrong with a system of laissez-faire economics? Adam Smith, the author of The Wealth of Nations, is sometimes credited as the first political economist and many of his followers today advocate free market, laissez-faire, policy.

When these leaders fail to correct mistakes and system loopholes when the trouble first emerges, these issues can become more serious and start to wreak havoc on the team or organization. We can find traces of this leadership style in some recent public events.

Before the Flint water crisis drew the attention of the whole nation in late , citizens of Flint had been drinking water with high lead levels for more than a year. Despite of multiple signs of unsafe water—high levels of bacteria detected, a local General Motors plant discontinuing using Flint tap water due to corroding engine parts, Flint residents complaining of health issues caused by city water, and a team of scientists finding extremely high lead levels in four Flint homes—the city overruled the proposal of reconnecting to a safer water source and simply told the concerned public to relax.

This insufficient leadership led more than , residents to be exposed to unsafe lead levels, including 6, to 12, children. If the city officials had reacted to the problem at the first sight of trouble, instead of trying to smooth the trouble away, such a tragic event could have been terminated in its early stage. Therefore, compared to other counterproductive leadership behaviors, laissez-faire leadership can do more damage to an organization in the long run.

Organizations should raise awareness to such leadership and its negative impacts. When selecting, assessing or developing leaders, organizations should use a systematic and comprehensive approach to avoid laissez-faire behaviors that can create a toxic work environment.

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