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An Austrian economist, Mises was a great defender of the free market and demonstrated the impossibility of rational economic calculation under socialism, becoming a pillar of the Austrian School and an inspiration for modern libertarianism.
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Ludwig von Mises leans further toward free market than 98% of the 569 personalities in the catalog.
Of all the topics, Free market is where Ludwig von Mises stands furthest from the rest.
On Technology, Ludwig von Mises 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.
Original branch of liberalism that defends natural rights, property, free markets, and a minimal state, seeing individual freedom and the strict limitation of power as the foundations of a just society.
Libertarian branch that defends a minimal state limited to police, courts, and defense, leaving everything else to the market and private initiative, to protect individual rights without oppressing freedom.
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ReactionaryismFar-Right26%
An American economist, Friedman led neoliberalism and monetarism, defending free markets, monetary stability, and a smaller state as essential conditions of freedom and prosperity.
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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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