The term laissez faire, laissez passer was first used in the late 18th century by French champions of economic freedom, viz., Gournay, Quesnay, Turgot, and Mirabeau, and it expressed their aim for the abolition of all statutes preventing the more industrious people from outdoing the less industrious (though they did not intend to adopt this term as their doctrine). It means "Let individuals choose how they want to cooperate in the social division of labor and let them determine what the entrepreneurs should produce..." (Mises)