What the four letters mean
| P Ownership | privatenot collective (C) |
|---|---|
| L Control | decentralizednot centralized (A) |
| I Horizon | internationalistnot national (N) |
| G Method | gradualnot rupture (R) |
Where this has shown up
HistoricallyCobden and Bright, Bastiat, contemporary open-borders libertarianism.
All sixteen
Columns: collective → private. Within each half, internationalist then national.
Rows: centralized → decentralized. Within each half, rupture then gradual.
This page is not a diagnosis
The Free Trader is a box, and a box is a compression. It keeps the sign of each score and throws away the magnitude — so two people filed here can sit at opposite ends of it, and somebody two points the other side of a cut line has more in common with this type than with their own. The four axes are real. The lines drawn across them are a decision somebody made.
The point
Cutline will tell you the margin it used to hand you each of your four letters — including when one of them was a coin toss. That is the part every other sixteen-type system leaves out.