Mercantilism
Doctrine combining free enterprise and competition in the domestic market with an external tariff wall, subsidies for infant industry, a national bank, public infrastructure and trade surplus as a source of national power.
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Doctrine combining free enterprise and competition in the domestic market with an external tariff wall, subsidies for infant industry, a national bank, public infrastructure and trade surplus as a source of national power.
In one sentence
I want free competition at home protected by an external tariff wall, with a national bank and subsidies for infant industry generating a surplus.
Political topics
Leans further toward nationalist than 86% of the 263 ideologies in the catalog.
Of all the topics, Nationalism is where it stands furthest from the rest.
On Free market, it sits practically at the catalog median.
Here it shares common ground with most ideologies.

A founder of the United States, Hamilton championed strong federal government, robust public finances, a national bank, and industrialization, combining constitutional republicanism with modernizing economic nationalism.
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