Ideologies / Neoliberal / Gordon Gekko
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Gordon Gekko
Greed is good
The market ethos, distilled and exposed.
Economic+37
SocialistMarket
Governance+2
LibertarianAuthoritarian
Social−10
TraditionalProgressive
The corporate raider whose 'greed is good' speech became the defining caricature of 1980s market triumphalism and its moral hollowness.
social
Amoral individualism — winning is the only value.
economic
Predatory free-market capitalism as a personal creed.
governance
Operates in deregulated markets, contemptuous of restraint.
Notable for
- 'Greed, for lack of a better word, is good'
- Icon of 1980s finance
- Cautionary capitalist archetype
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