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An Objectivist psychologist, Branden was Ayn Rand's collaborator and a pioneer of the psychology of self-esteem, uniting Objectivism with the appreciation of reason, individualism, and personal responsibility in mental life.
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Nathaniel Branden leans further toward federal than 91% of the 569 personalities in the catalog.
Of all the topics, Structure is where Nathaniel Branden stands furthest from the rest.
On Nationalism, Nathaniel Branden sits practically at the catalog median.
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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.
Philosophy created by Ayn Rand that exalts reason, individualism, and rational egoism, defending laissez-faire capitalism and the pursuit of one's own happiness as the supreme moral purpose of each person's life.
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.
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