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A French economist, Bastiat defended free trade and limited government with clarity and irony, denouncing protectionism and what is not seen in economic policies, becoming a classic of liberal thought.
Political topics
Frédéric Bastiat leans further toward free market than 97% of the 569 personalities in the catalog.
Of all the topics, Free market is where Frédéric Bastiat stands furthest from the rest.
On Morality, Frédéric Bastiat sits practically at the catalog median.
Here they share common ground with most personalities.
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Political tradition that places individual freedom at the center, defending rights, tolerance, the rule of law, a market economy, and limits on power, with government subject to the consent of citizens.
Current that advocates free markets, deregulation, privatization, and fiscal discipline, reducing the state's economic role and trusting competition and monetary stability as engines of prosperity.
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.
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Pol Pot SocialismRadical Left25%
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