Friedrich List
Friedrich List
Georg Friedrich Listwas a leading 19th-century German-American economist who developed the "National System" or what some would call today the National System of Innovation. He was a forefather of the German historical school of economics, and considered the original European unity theorist whose ideas were the basis for the European Economic Community...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionEconomist
Date of Birth6 August 1789
CountryGermany
Friedrich List quotes about
everywhere liberty towns
liberty and civilisation have everywhere and at all times emanated from towns
appears borne burden class cost debt evil great national
England's national debt would not be so great an evil as it now appears to us, if England's aristocracy would concede that this burden should be borne by the class who were benefited by the cost of wars, namely, by the rich.
economics transportation manufacturing
Only now did I recognize the reciprocal relationship which exists between manufacturing power and the national system of transportation, and that the one can never develop to its fullest without the other.
agriculture growth proportion
The concentration and reciprocal effect of industry and agriculture conjoin in a growth of productive powers, which increases more in geometrical than in arithmetical proportion.
welfare individual social
But the general welfare must restrict and regulate the exertions of the individuals, as the individuals must derive a supply of their strength from social power.
develop fullest national power reciprocal relationship
Only now did I recognize the reciprocal relationship which exits between manufacturing power and the national system of transportation, and that the one can never develop to its fullest without the other.