The notion of laissez-faire economics is mostly associated with:

Which of the following, if true, limits the argument that government is the cause of poverty?

a. Programs such as Medicaid and food stamps discourage people from working. b. Cash payments limit people from wanting to accept low-paying jobs. c. Government job-training programs have helped some people get off of welfare and into jobs. d. Many people prefer to stay on welfare because they do not want to work.

All of the following are examples that a liberal might cite of the human costs of the market EXCEPT:

a) One million people died in the Irish Potato Famine that government policy could have alleviated. b) In the 1910s, 25,000 workers were killed annually on the job in the United States. c) In 1985, an earthquake shook Mexico City, and close to 10,000 people died. d) Factories poured their toxic wastes into the nation's water, soil, and air, endangering people's health.