National system of political economy. Translated from the German by G.A.Matile. Including the notes of the French translation, by Henri Richelot. With a preliminary essay and notes, by Stephen Colwell.

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.LXXXIV,61-497p., thus complete. Contemp. cloth, back with printed label, inner hinges clumsily repaired, some light wear. First English edition, originally published in 1841. Friedrich List's seminal advocacy of economic nationalism, derived from the nationalist and romantic ideas of Alexander Hamilton and Adam Muller, from whom List also adopted his opposition against the ideas of Adam Smith. List considered the principle of free-trade detrimental to the national interest, to which the immediate interests of groups and individuals should be submitted. To List the nation was an entity whose aim is not the creation of wealth by international exchange, but the development of its own economic and productive sources. These views coincided so exactly with the reawakening of German nationalism that Lists's book caused a great sensation when it was published, and it remained for seventy years the theoretic gospel of the advocates of protectionist tariffs in Germany, Britain and the United States.'The editor Stephen Colwell (1800-1871) was a Philadelphian industrialist and philanthropist. *New Palgrave III,p.216-218. N° de ref. del artículo 30948

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