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New Zealand Finance Minister (1984–88) in the Lange Labour government, he devised Rogernomics: a floating dollar, privatisations, the end of subsidies and a consumption tax. He later co-founded the liberal ACT party.
Political axes
Roger Douglas leans further toward free market than 96% of the 749 personalities in the catalog.
Of all the axes, Control is where Roger Douglas stands furthest from the rest.
On Structure, Roger Douglas sits close to the catalog median.
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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.
Eighteenth-century European intellectual movement that champions reason, science and tolerance against superstition and absolutism, with natural rights, separation of powers, education and progress as the basis of society.
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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Strasserist SocialismThird Position26%
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Under David Lange's Labour government and minister Roger Douglas, New Zealand privatized state firms, cut farm subsidies, opened trade and deregulated the economy, keeping democracy and its anti-nuclear policy.
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