Murray Rothbard: "Thomas Le Gendre (1638–1706), coiner of the phrase laissez-faire as applied to policies and the economy, was the most eminent of a long line of merchant-bankers traced back to the early sixteenth century. A multi-millionaire, Le Gendre owned vast interests in ..." https://mises.org/library/book/austrian-perspective-history-economic-thought
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