Ideologies / Fiscal Conservative / Ebenezer Scrooge (counting-house archetype)
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Ebenezer Scrooge (counting-house archetype)
Every penny accounted
Thrift to a fault.
Economic+82
SocialistMarket
Governance+6
LibertarianAuthoritarian
Social−48
TraditionalProgressive
Dickens's counting-house miser stands — before his change of heart — as the caricature of fiscal conservatism stripped to pure parsimony: every coin counted, every expense resented.
social
Severe traditionalist of Victorian rectitude.
economic
Worships saving, sound money and the ledger above all.
governance
Wants the state to do little and tax less.
Notable for
- 'Bah! Humbug!'
- The Victorian miser
- Ledger-bound thrift
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