In These Times

One economist who may be getting more attention in Europe than in the U.S. -- not that there's anything necessarily wrong with that -- is Friedrich List. Generally in this country (based on having just skimmed some on-line bios) he seems to be branded as a "nationalist" economist, implying perhaps that he a proto-Communist, or even a proto-fascist. I hjave not taken the time to read a copy of his two majhor works _The_Natural_System_of_Political_Economy_ and _The_National_System_of_Political_Economy_, so I can't really comment directly. James Fallows had an article published in the _Atlantic_Monthly in 1993, in which he "discovers" Friedrich List (I remember …

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