Roman Szporluk
- Published in print:
- 1993
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780195051032
- eISBN:
- 9780199854417
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195051032.003.0007
- Subject:
- History, European Modern History
The chapter gives a short but extensive autobiography of Friedrich List. He contributed greatly to the movement for economic and political unification of Germany. He was mostly remembered as a ...
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The chapter gives a short but extensive autobiography of Friedrich List. He contributed greatly to the movement for economic and political unification of Germany. He was mostly remembered as a promoter of the railroad. He considered the railroad as an essential precondition for Germany's economic unification. Even when he was young, he shared the ideas and values of political and cultural nationalists which can be shown clearly by his reform plans for the German confederation. List was an ideologist of industrialism and industrialization. He was the only thinker who welcomed the Industrial Revolution and its political, social, and cultural consequences. He called for reform and not revolution. He wanted to give the Germans a new life and a sense of purpose. The last major cause that he participated in was the movement for raising the Zollverein tariff to stimulate industrial growth.Less
The chapter gives a short but extensive autobiography of Friedrich List. He contributed greatly to the movement for economic and political unification of Germany. He was mostly remembered as a promoter of the railroad. He considered the railroad as an essential precondition for Germany's economic unification. Even when he was young, he shared the ideas and values of political and cultural nationalists which can be shown clearly by his reform plans for the German confederation. List was an ideologist of industrialism and industrialization. He was the only thinker who welcomed the Industrial Revolution and its political, social, and cultural consequences. He called for reform and not revolution. He wanted to give the Germans a new life and a sense of purpose. The last major cause that he participated in was the movement for raising the Zollverein tariff to stimulate industrial growth.
Jacob Viner
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- April 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780199756124
- eISBN:
- 9780190261337
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:osobl/9780199756124.003.0007
- Subject:
- Economics and Finance, International
This chapter describes the obstacles to the formation of customs unions. The program under the International Trade Organization weakens the incentive to multilateral preferential arrangements on a ...
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This chapter describes the obstacles to the formation of customs unions. The program under the International Trade Organization weakens the incentive to multilateral preferential arrangements on a restricted territorial basis, which American commercial policy provided until 1934. The absence of any approach to a world balance of power makes the political hazards for small countries of economic unification with large countries greater than they were in the 19th century. The same factors associated with planned economies that present obstacles to the formation of customs unions also make other types of removal or reduction of trade barriers more disturbing than they would have been under 19th-century conditions.Less
This chapter describes the obstacles to the formation of customs unions. The program under the International Trade Organization weakens the incentive to multilateral preferential arrangements on a restricted territorial basis, which American commercial policy provided until 1934. The absence of any approach to a world balance of power makes the political hazards for small countries of economic unification with large countries greater than they were in the 19th century. The same factors associated with planned economies that present obstacles to the formation of customs unions also make other types of removal or reduction of trade barriers more disturbing than they would have been under 19th-century conditions.
