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A Scottish economist, Adam Smith founded modern economics in The Wealth of Nations, showing how the market and the division of labor generate prosperity and how the invisible hand coordinates individual interests.
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Adam Smith leans further toward federal than 81% of the 569 personalities in the catalog.
Of all the topics, Structure is where Adam Smith stands furthest from the rest.
On Morality, Adam Smith sits practically at the catalog median.
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Economic system based on private property, free markets, and the pursuit of profit, in which production and prices are regulated by competition and supply and demand, with individual initiative as its engine.
A world divided into independent city-states and microstates that compete like a market, with free secession, the right of exit and political experimentation, from the medieval free cities to Yarvin's "patchwork" and seasteading.
Doctrine that organizes the state through a constitutional division of power between a central government and autonomous regional units, such as cantons or states, with their own competencies, independent courts, and mutual checks against excessive concentration of power.
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Pol Pot SocialismRadical Left33%
An entrepreneur and billionaire, Musk leads technology companies such as Tesla and SpaceX and champions technological accelerationism, the colonization of Mars, and libertarian ideas, influencing the global public debate.
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A tiny European principality, Liechtenstein is a prosperous constitutional monarchy, with strong local autonomy, a liberal economy based on finance and industry, and one of the highest income levels per capita in the world.
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A pioneering modern merchant republic, the United Provinces were a confederation governed by a commercial oligarchy, marked by religious tolerance, free trade, and immense naval and financial power at their height.
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