Eco-Capitalism
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.
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In one sentence
I want a green market economy, where pricing, technology and profit make protecting nature compatible with growth and free enterprise.
Political axes
Profile across the 12 axes
- Leaning · Unitary
Structure
- Strong · Democracy
Representation
- Strong · Liberty
Power
- Strong · Multiculturalism
Immigration
- Very strong · Pacifist
Diplomacy
- Strong · Non-interventionist
Intervention
- Strong · Private
Economy
- Leaning · Free market
Control
- Strong · Globalism
Trade
- Strong · Irreligious
Religion
- Leaning · Progressive
Morality
- Strong · Technology
Technology
What sets this ideology apart
Trade
Leans further toward globalism than 90% of the 243 ideologies in the catalog.
Ideology median 63This ideology 19
Of all the axes, Trade is where it stands furthest from the rest.
Structure
On Structure, it sits close to the catalog median.
Ideology median 36This ideology 30
Here it shares common ground with most ideologies.
Personalities
Elon Musk
An entrepreneur and billionaire, Musk leads technology companies such as Tesla and SpaceX and champions technological accelerationism, the colonization of Mars, and libertarian ideas, influencing the global public debate.
Closest, by dimension
PoliticallyRay KurzweilInventor and futurist95%
SociallyBaruch SpinozaPhilosopher97%
EconomicallyAdam SmithEconomist98%
Other compatible profiles
PhilosophyNicolas de CondorcetEnlightenment philosopher94%
BusinessSam AltmanEntrepreneur93%
BusinessJensen HuangEntrepreneur93%
BusinessBill GatesEntrepreneur and philanthropist93%
Intellectual lifeRandolph BourneEssayist91%
PoliticsEduardo LeiteGovernor91%
Intellectual lifeAdrian WooldridgeJournalist and essayist91%
BusinessVitalik ButerinProgrammer91%
The most distant
Countries
Reference country
California (United States)
Techno-progressive regionThe most populous US state, California is a global hub of technology and culture, with strongly progressive, environmentalist, and technocratic politics and a gigantic, innovative market economy.
Other close countries
Luxembourg
Financial-integrated monarchyA European grand duchy and global financial center, Luxembourg combines parliamentary monarchy, an open economy, deep European integration, and a multicultural society sustained by services, technology, and finance.
Also close, by dimension
PoliticallyIrelandLiberal-multinational republic91%
SociallySão Paulo (Brazil)Industrial-financial region95%
EconomicallyMacau (China)Hyper-open recreational region98%
The most distant
Allende's Chile
1970–1973Under Allende's Popular Unity, Chile attempted democratic socialism through copper and bank nationalization, agrarian reform, and economic planning until the 1973 military coup.
Also close, by dimension
PoliticallyWeimar Republic1919–193374%
SociallyFree Territory (Makhnovshchina)1918–192177%
EconomicallyFujimori's Peru1990–200097%
The most distant
Ideological proximity
Close ideologies
Closest within Right
- Right
Neoliberalism
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.
- Right
Capitalism
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.
- Right
Financial Monarchism
Dynastic microstate model that trades political sovereignty for prosperity: a hereditary prince with real power, minimal taxation, secrecy and financial services as the revenue base, openness to foreign capital and residents, and no standing army.
Closest in other spectrums
- Center
Ordoliberalism
German liberal school that defends the free market within firm rules guaranteed by the state, fighting monopolies and ensuring competition and stability, serving as the basis of the social market economy.
- Left
Progressive Liberalism
Current that unites market capitalism and globalized trade with a robust welfare state, advocating progressive morality, secularism, and democratic institutions, in the Nordic social model.
- Center
Liberalism
Political tradition that places individual freedom at the center, defending rights, tolerance, the rule of law, a market economy, and limits on power, with government subject to the consent of citizens.
The most distant ideology
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