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A German economist, List championed economic nationalism and the protection of infant industry, arguing that lagging countries need tariffs and a strong state to develop and catch up with rich nations.
Political axes
Friedrich List leans further toward protectionism than 89% of the 416 personalities in the catalog.
Of all the axes, Trade is where Friedrich List stands furthest from the rest.
On Morality, Friedrich List sits practically at the catalog median.
Here they share common ground with most personalities.
Ideological proximity
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Ideology that places the nation as the central value, defending its sovereignty, unity, and identity, and prioritizing the interests of the people and the nation-state over external influences and globalism.
Doctrine combining free enterprise and competition in the domestic market with an external tariff wall, subsidies for infant industry, a national bank, public infrastructure and trade surplus as a source of national power.
Doctrine of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk that founded modern Turkey on six arrows: republicanism, nationalism, populism, statism, laicism and reformism, imposing Westernization and state control of religion from above.
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Progressive LibertarianismLibertarian28%
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