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Leader of the massive expansion of the American steel industry and one of the wealthiest individuals in history, he championed relentless competitive capitalism in The Gospel of Wealth alongside the moral obligation to redistribute wealth through public libraries and education.
Political axes
Andrew Carnegie leans further toward free market than 92% of the 525 personalities in the catalog.
Of all the axes, Control is where Andrew Carnegie stands furthest from the rest.
On Trade, Andrew Carnegie sits practically at the catalog median.
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Current that seeks to solve the environmental crisis through the market, using pricing, green technology, and incentives to make protecting nature profitable and compatible with growth and free enterprise.
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.
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ReactionaryismFar-Right35%
A Dutch rationalist philosopher of Portuguese-Jewish descent, Spinoza identified God with Nature, rejected dogma and free will, and argued in the Ethics and the Theologico-Political Treatise for tolerance, freedom of thought and democracy as the most rational regime.
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Under Allende's Popular Unity, Chile attempted democratic socialism through copper and bank nationalization, agrarian reform, and economic planning until the 1973 military coup.
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