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search  Liberism (derived from the Italian term liberismo) is a
term for the economic doctrine of laissez-faire capitalism first
used by the philosopher Benedetto Croce,[citation needed] and
popularized in English by the Italian-American political
scientist Giovanni Sartori.  Sartori imported the term from
Italian in order to distinguish between social liberalism, which
is generally considered a political ideology often advocating
extensive government intervention in the economy, and those
liberal theories of economics which propose to virtually
eliminate such intervention. In informal usage, liberism
overlaps with other concepts such as free trade, neoliberalism,
right-libertarianism, the American concept of libertarianism,
and the French notion of laissez-faire.  In Italy, liberism is
often identified with the political theories of Gaetano Mosca,
Luigi Einaudi and Bruno Leoni. Internationally, liberism has
been advocated by the Austrian School of ec