No you're not.
And anyway, what's more important: the guy who had the idea, or the people who create following the idea?
Kind of "what comes first between the hen and the egg", I know. But all I mean is that having the idea is not enough.
Which is why that old French tagline for a campaign for energy savings, right after the first (or was it the second?) oil crisis, always struck me as particularly meaningless.
It went: "In France, we have no oil but we have ideas".
We certainly didn't have enough of both, which is probably the reason why, in 75, a young ChIraq found his sister soul in Baghdad.
Actually, the laissez-faire expression was probably coined way before Bastiat. Jean-François Revel, in his excellent book "La Grande Parade" states that its probably a merchant, François Le Gendre who, when Colbert asked him what the government of the king (Louis XIV) could do to help the business, was the first to answer "Laissez-nous faire" (leave it to us).