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Economic Policy Assessment Criteria
Note that this is not about ideological labels, but de facto assessment of policies
Left:
- State-led/controlled economy
- Public investment and ownership
- Pro-worker policies
- Public services expansion
- State control of "commanding heights" - finance, infrastructure
- Land reform (under feudalism)
Right:
- Pro-business orientation
- Free market policies
- Private control of economy
- Profit-centered approach
- Pro-IMF policies
- Anti-labor measures
- Neoliberal economics
- Pro-landlord (under feudalism)