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A Chicago-trained economist and Bolsonaro's economy minister, Guedes delivered pension reform and central bank autonomy, preached sweeping privatisations that never happened, and loosened the federal spending cap.
Political axes
Paulo Guedes leans further toward free market than 88% of the 416 personalities in the catalog.
Of all the axes, Control is where Paulo Guedes stands furthest from the rest.
On Representation, Paulo Guedes sits practically at the catalog median.
Here they share common ground with most personalities.
Ideological proximity
The closest among the 243 ideologies
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.
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.
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.
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Clerical FascismThird Position24%
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