If it's about picking a side, I chose Edward and his wife; Edward 7th. Did he write the League of Nations Charter and also the first draft of the UDHR? But, what was in control on the other side and maybe right under his nose, resisting Edward's wisdom to have a Dutch benefit and why? Edward 's policy was the active hand in the economy but could one man carry out all of the task? The answer is yes; and no. Yes; he could in Holland where people do as they are told but in an Anglo Creole economy with this Christopher Columbus ship captain DNA fighting for control of the Captain's wheel ( for the economy) it was a wrestle and an unusual battle of the wills. Thomas Carlyle; and the early evidence of the failure of Laissez-faire economics vs. a more active mode of economy.