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German economist of the Freiburg School and an opponent of Nazism, Eucken founded ordoliberalism: he defended a competitive order guaranteed by a strong state, against monopolies, cartels and central planning. He inspired the German social market economy.
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Walter Eucken leans further toward globalism than 88% of the 749 personalities in the catalog.
Of all the axes, Trade is where Walter Eucken stands furthest from the rest.
On Diplomacy, Walter Eucken sits practically at the catalog median.
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Centrist branch that combines economic moderation and institutional respect with social conservatism, valuing family, religion, order, and gradual change without joining the authoritarian right or populist radicalism.
German liberal school of Freiburg (Eucken, Rüstow, Müller-Armack) that defends the free market within firm rules guaranteed by the state, against monopolies and central planning, with a Christian ethical basis and social policy, the origin of the social market economy.
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.
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Techno-SocialismRadical Left36%
Economist and Erhard's state secretary, Müller-Armack coined the term social market economy in 1946 and shaped it as a synthesis of free markets and social policy, the basis of the German economic miracle. He also championed European integration.
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A parliamentary republic with an Orthodox majority, Bulgaria belongs to the EU and NATO, with a low flat tax, chronic political instability, oligarchs and corruption, historic ties to Russia, a nuclear plant, a Roma minority and conservative laws on gender.
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Lutheran German state with pioneering manufacturing and mining, a Catholic dynasty, and parliamentary traditions inside the German Confederation and Empire.
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