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Harold J. Laski: Private enterprise has the sanction of prescription; but since the Industrial Revolution the chief lesson we have had to…

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Private enterprise has the sanction of prescription; but since the Industrial Revolution the chief lesson we have had to learn is the unsatisfactory character of that title.
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Harold J. Laski

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Laski critiques the reliance on private enterprise, highlighting its inadequacies since the Industrial Revolution.

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