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German economist exiled from the Nazis in Turkey and Switzerland. An ordoliberal, he defended free markets, sound money and a decentralized "third way" between capitalism and collectivism. He inspired Erhard and co-founded the Mont Pelerin Society.
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Wilhelm Röpke leans further toward federal than 83% of the 749 personalities in the catalog.
Of all the axes, Structure is where Wilhelm Röpke stands furthest from the rest.
On Diplomacy, Wilhelm Röpke sits practically at the catalog median.
Here they share common ground with most personalities.
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The closest among the 276 ideologies
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.
Tradition of republics made of sovereign provinces or cantons, such as the Dutch Republic and the old Swiss Confederacy, with local self-government, open trade, armed neutrality and deep-rooted Protestant faith.
Synthesis that unites free markets and economic freedoms with the appreciation of tradition, order, and institutions, defending prudent change and social stability within the framework of liberal democracy.
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Techno-SocialismRadical Left26%
A British philosopher, Scruton was one of the great contemporary conservative thinkers, defending tradition, beauty, nation, and institutions as sources of meaning and order against relativism and progressivism.
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Germany's largest federal state, Bavaria combines strong regional identity and Catholicism, historic dominance by the CSU, cutting-edge industry (BMW, Siemens), and active defense of its fiscal and cultural autonomy from Berlin.
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British colonies on the North American Atlantic coast, with assemblies of white property owners, governors appointed by the Crown, established and dissenting churches, trade under the Navigation Acts, slavery in the South and expansion into Indigenous lands.
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