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Industrialist and banker of the Brazilian Empire, Mauá founded a shipyard, a foundry, Brazil's first railway and banks across the River Plate; a liberal critic of slavery, he clashed with the government's restrictive credit policy and went bankrupt in 1875.
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Baron of Mauá leans further toward free market than 75% of the 416 personalities in the catalog.
Of all the axes, Control is where Baron of Mauá stands furthest from the rest.
On Religion, Baron of Mauá sits practically at the catalog median.
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The East Asian Tiger model (Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong): champions free markets, foreign trade and private enterprise as engines of growth, paired with an active technocratic state that plans infrastructure, education and strategic industrialization, stopping short of closed protectionism or hard authoritarian control.
Synthesis that unites free markets and economic freedoms with the appreciation of tradition, order, and institutions, defending prudent change and social stability within the framework of liberal democracy.
Liberalism before mass democracy: it guarantees civil liberty, property, a free press and a lean state, but restricts the vote to educated property owners, fearing that unlimited popular sovereignty would destroy the very liberties it protects.
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CommunalismAnarchist29%
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An aristocratic republic of antiquity, Rome balanced consuls, Senate, and tribunes of the plebs in a mixed system of elective magistracies, expanding across the Mediterranean through citizen legions and a strong cult of civic virtue.
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