History A-Level
Laissez-faire and market ideology
What Laissez-faire and market ideology means in History A-Level, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
Definition of Laissez-faire and market ideology
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Food continued to be exported while people starved, raising questions about market principles and laissez-faire.
Topics that use Laissez-faire and market ideology
- Paper 3, Option 36.2: Ireland and the Union, c1774–1923 - 3 The Irish Famine, 1843–51 (Pearson Edexcel A-Level)
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