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American economic journalist and philosopher associated with the Austrian School, celebrated for popularizing free-market economics and exposing the unseen costs of government price controls and subsidies.
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Henry Hazlitt leans further toward free market than 99% of the 569 personalities in the catalog.
Of all the topics, Free market is where Henry Hazlitt stands furthest from the rest.
On Immigration, Henry Hazlitt sits close to the catalog median.
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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.
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.
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ReactionaryismFar-Right26%
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