“Any nation which by means of protective duties and restrictions on navigation has raised her manufacturing power... can do nothing wiser than to throw away these ladders of her greatness, to preach to other nations the benefits of free trade.”

About Friedrich List

Economist • German

Friedrich List was a leading 19th-century German-American economist who developed the 'National System' of political economy. He was a foremost thinker of the German Historical School of economics and a strong advocate...