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The national system of political economy

List supplies the developmental grammar for productive power, national learning, and infrastructure as policy.

Author
Friedrich List
Year
1841
Track
foundations
Citation
Friedrich List, The National System of Political Economy, 1841.
Friedrich List, portrait, 1845
Unknown artist, 1845, public domain via Wikimedia Commons

List supplies the developmental grammar for productive power, national learning, and infrastructure as policy. Its place in the canon is not decorative. It marks a recurring problem for American economic statecraft: how law, capital, operators, and legitimacy combine when a nation tries to build strategic economic terrain.