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American engineer, Scott founded Technocracy Incorporated in 1933, proposing to replace the price system and money with energy certificates and to hand the government of a continental “technate” to engineers and scientists instead of politicians and businessmen.
Political topics
Howard Scott leans further toward autocracy than 77% of the 569 personalities in the catalog.
Of all the topics, Representation is where Howard Scott stands furthest from the rest.
On Immigration, Howard Scott sits close to the catalog median.
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Current inspired by Auguste Comte that trusts science and reason to organize society, defending order, progress, and technical administration guided by knowledge in place of metaphysics and tradition.
Model that combines socialist planning with scientific management of the economy, entrusting expert committees, rather than elections or party competition, with the rational organization of production and the egalitarian distribution of society's resources.
Model in which the state directs industrialization and economic growth through planning, public investment, and industrial protection, seeking to overcome the nation's backwardness and external dependence.
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Anarcho-ConservatismLibertarian32%
A French philosopher, Comte founded positivism and sociology, holding that science should organize society toward order and progress, with strong influence on republican and technocratic thought.
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A single-party socialist state in the Caribbean, Cuba maintains a planned economy, strong state control, and universal public services, with power centralized since the revolution led by Fidel Castro in 1959.
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Ruled by Fidel Castro from 1959 to 2008, Cuba became a one-party socialist state, with a nationalized economy, universal health and education, a Soviet alliance, repression of dissidents, mass exile and confrontation with the United States, from the embargo to the missile crisis.
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