Unwilling to follow the occupation of his father, who was a prosperous tanner, he became an accountant in the public service (a so-called ' Cameralist of the Bureaus'), and by 1816 had risen to the post of ministerial under-secretary. List was born in Reutlingen, Württemberg.
ġ989 East Germany stamp commemorating List's birth and the establishment of the railway between Leipzig and Dresden At the time in Europe, liberal and nationalist ideas were almost inseparably linked, and political liberalism was not yet attached to what was later considered "economic liberalism." Emmanuel Todd considers John Maynard Keynes to be the logical continuation of List as a theorist of "moderate or regulated capitalism". List was a political liberal who collaborated with Karl von Rotteck and Carl Theodor Welcker on the Rotteck-Welckersches Staatslexikon, an encyclopedia of political science that advocated constitutional liberalism and which influenced the Vormärz.
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He advocated imposing tariffs on imported goods while supporting free trade of domestic goods, and stated the cost of a tariff should be seen as an investment in a nation's future productivity. He was a forefather of the German historical school of economics, and argued for the German Customs Union from a Nationalist standpoint.
Georg Friedrich List (6 August 1789 – 30 November 1846) was a German-American economist who developed the "National System" of political economy.
Kufstein, County of Tyrol, Austrian Empireįounded the historical school of economics
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