The national system of political economy
by Friedrich List · first published 1966
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…Smith sure could turn out a sentence. And so can this guy. Not clear that this is the best way to judge economics professors, however. For a classic text in mercantilist economics, try Friedrich List, _National System of Political Economy_ (1844): https://books.google.com/books?id=4uuc7tdk0Z8C
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on “Ask HN: Which books you have read till now that were worth investing time in?” ↗…Source: https://archive.org/stream/chambersencyclo00unkngoog#page/n1... I've sketched in some related information at Ello which I need to incorporate. This is strongly related to Friedrich List's National System of political economy. The 18th and 19th centuries were interesting times.
on “Chinese Tech Firms Forced to Choose Market: Home or Everywhere Else” ↗…how the US used tariffs to promote certain industries in order to compete on the world stage. It was part of Alexander Hamilton's American System. Friedrich List, the German economist that wrote "The National System of Political Economy", used the American System to advocate for the same policies in Germany. Germany eventually adopted these policies and became an economic powerhouse themselves. Likewise, Meiji Japan went so far as to…
on “Tariffs in American History” ↗…Ha-Joon Chang has been one of the louder voices for this recently, but his own scholarship points to many earlier instances. Friedrich List (mentioned in your article) wrote a book on the topic (The National System of Political Economy), available at the Internet Archive. Among List's American publishers was J.B. Lippencott, who among other works also printed the authorised version of Chamber's Encyclopaedia. As I've just noted in…
on “Chinese Tech Firms Forced to Choose Market: Home or Everywhere Else” ↗