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Frederick List was born, the 6th A ugust, 1789, at Reutlingen, a free city of Suabia. His early education was incomplete. At the Classical School he exhibited so little taste for its studies, that his father withdrew him ;but as he showed equal indisposition to learn his fathers business, he was subsequently left to shape his own education. This he did, however, to such purpose, that we find him, in 1816, holding an appointment in the Central Administration of Wurtemberg, in which he justified the confidence placed in him by a distinguished statesman, the Minister Wangenheim, who offered his young assistant, in the following year, the chair of Political Economy, in the University of Tbingen. List accepted this position. He tells us in the Preface to his National System, that the principle of free trade was one of the first encountered in his new career. It seemed to me at first reasonable ;but gradually I satisfied myself that the whole doctrine was applicable and sound only when adopted by all nations. Thus I was led to the idea of nationality; I found that the theorists kept always in view mankind and man, never separate nations. It became then obvious to me, that between two advanced countries, a free competition must necessarily be advantageous to both, if they were upon the same level of industrial progress ;and that a nation, The sources of this biography are 1st. List slife, by Professor Hausser, of Heidelberg, who was commissioned by our Author sfamily with the collection and publication of List sworks, and who has fulfilled Tiis task with zeal and talent. 2d. List sbiography, written by his French translator, Henry Richelot. 3d. The article in the Dictionnaire deVE conomie Politique, (P aris, 1853). 4th. The National System itself. 5th. We have made free use of the Author s Preface, which is therefore omitted in the translation.
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- Date d'édition1772
- ISBN 10 1230213007
- ISBN 13 9781230213002
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