The average value of Virginia real estate was $5,000 per acre in 2008, compared to $4,900 in 2007. In West Virginia, real estate value climbed by $200 per acre in 2008, to $2,500 per acre from $2,300 per acre.
Definition. Laissez faire is the belief that economies and businesses function best when there is no interference by the government. It comes from the French, meaning to leave alone or to allow to do. It is one of the guiding principles of capitalism and a free market economy.
Laissez-faire was a political as well as an economic doctrine. The pervading theory of the 19th century was that the individual, pursuing his own desired ends, would thereby achieve the best results for the society of which he was a part.