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  • Smith believed that competition-- the belief that everyone should have a fair chance to compete to make, sell, and buy goods and services-- was the key to economic success. This means that everyone should have a fair chance to compete to make, sell, and buy goods and services.
  • Smith argued that such free competition would lead to the best goods made at the lowest prices. This would bring economic growth and higher wages. Smith described the effect of a free market as an "invisible hand, the effect of a free market guiding people's decisions.," guiding people's decisions.
  • Smith argued that if competition was going to work, governments should not interfere with business. This meant getting rid of government monopolies and having few laws to regulate business. Smith's ideas came to be known as "laissez-faire" (a French phrase meaning "leave it alone") -- the theory that governments should not interfere with business.
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