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A Brazilian economist and diplomat, Campos served as planning minister under the military regime, created the Central Bank and the housing bank, and became the country's most influential advocate of economic liberalism and privatisation.
Political topics
Roberto Campos leans further toward free market than 92% of the 569 personalities in the catalog.
Of all the topics, Free market is where Roberto Campos stands furthest from the rest.
On Structure, Roberto Campos sits practically at the catalog median.
Here they share common ground with most personalities.
Ideological proximity
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Synthesis of the Asian Tigers: entrusts government to a merit-recruited technical elite insulated from the vote and guided by results rather than doctrine, combining free trade, open markets and low taxation with strict public order and state planning where it proves effective.
A doctrine of Curtis Yarvin that proposes running the state as a joint-stock company: shareholders, a sovereign CEO, citizens as customers who can leave, guaranteed private property and politics replaced by management.
Pragmatic branch that prioritizes fiscal adjustment, economic stability, and governability through broad coalitions, accepting market reforms and political concessions in the name of short- and medium-term results.
The most distant ideology
CommunalismAnarchist25%
General and twice president of Argentina, Roca led the Desert Campaign against Indigenous peoples, federalized Buenos Aires and headed the Generation of '80: a centralized state, secular schooling, European immigration and an agro-export economy.
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A global financial center, Hong Kong is an autonomous region of strong free-market capitalism and technocratic management, whose broad autonomy has been increasingly restricted by mainland China's political control.
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Under Alberto Fujimori, Peru combined a self-coup and the closing of Congress with neoliberal shock reforms, privatisations and trade liberalisation, alongside a dirty war against the Shining Path marked by massacres and forced sterilisations.
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