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Alexander Hamilton

1755 – 1804

Designed American public credit, the national bank and industrial policy.

United States·Politics · Economics

Simón Bolívar

1783 – 1830

Led six nations to independence and drafted their founding constitutions.

Venezuela·Politics

Milton Friedman

1912 – 2006

Monetarism, floating exchange rates and a generation of deregulation.

United States·Economics · PoliticsNobel

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