Multiple choice

According to laissez-faire economists, the cure for poverty was

  1. welfare

  2. laws requiring factories to increase wages

  3. popular reform movements

  4. an unrestricted free market
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D Correct answer
Explanation

Laissez-faire economists, like Adam Smith, argued that the government should not interfere in the economy and that a free market would naturally lead to prosperity.

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