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A Brazilian economist and diplomat, Campos served as planning minister under the military regime, created the Central Bank and the housing bank, and became the country's most influential advocate of economic liberalism and privatisation.
Political axes
Roberto Campos leans further toward free market than 89% of the 416 personalities in the catalog.
Of all the axes, Control is where Roberto Campos stands furthest from the rest.
On Structure, Roberto Campos sits practically at the catalog median.
Here they share common ground with most personalities.
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Synthesis of the Asian Tigers: entrusts government to a merit-recruited technical elite insulated from the vote and guided by results rather than doctrine, combining free trade, open markets and low taxation with strict public order and state planning where it proves effective.
Pragmatic branch that prioritizes fiscal adjustment, economic stability, and governability through broad coalitions, accepting market reforms and political concessions in the name of short- and medium-term results.
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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CommunalismAnarchist24%
Foreign minister from 1902 to 1912, the Baron of Rio Branco settled Brazil's borders through arbitration and negotiation, as in Acre and Misiones, drew the country closer to the United States and made law and diplomacy the basis of foreign policy.
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A city-state of the Italian Renaissance, Florence united banking and commercial capitalism, factional disputes among guilds and families such as the Medici, and a patronage that revolutionized the arts, letters, and political thought.
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