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Participants analyze the “social” question; the relationship between economic liberalism and the well-being of the masses; the phenomenon of mass unemployment; and what liberalism can offer the most deprived classes. Here, too, a divergence appears between a more classical wing and a more reformist one, with regard to the solutions favored by the participants.
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Security refers not to security from crime but rather to a modicum of economic and social sec urity.
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A bank of issue is a bank that is legally authorized by the State to produce currency, including printing money and coins. Examples include the U.S. Federal Reserve and the Bank of England.-Ed.
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Emphasis in original.
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La collectivité refers in a general sense to the community , society, the State, and the (tax-paying) public , not the individual.
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Reinhoudt, J., Audier, S. (2018). Liberalism and the Social Question. In: The Walter Lippmann Colloquium. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-65885-8_7
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