Ideologies / Nordic Liberal / Anders Chydenius
§ The minds · 1729–1803 · Finland / Sweden · Priest & legislator
Anders Chydenius
Free trade before Smith
Liberty of press and commerce.
Economic−18
SocialistMarket
Governance−48
LibertarianAuthoritarian
Social+24
TraditionalProgressive
The Finnish-Swedish clergyman whose 1765 free-trade and free-press reforms made him a founder of Nordic liberalism — and gave the world its first freedom-of-information act.
social
Enlightenment progressive and reformer.
economic
Argued for free markets and against monopoly a decade before 'Wealth of Nations.'
governance
Pioneered the world's first freedom-of-information law.
Notable for
- World's first freedom-of-information law (1766)
- Early free-trade theorist
- 'The National Gain'
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