Frederick list biography
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Friedrich List
German-born American economist (1789–1846)
Daniel Friedrich List (6 August 1789 – 30 November 1846) was a German entrepreneur, diplomat, economist and political theorist who developed the nationalist theory of political economy in both Europe and the United States.[4] He was a forefather of the German historical school of economics and argued for the Zollverein (a pan-German customs union) from a nationalist standpoint. He advocated raising tariffs on imported goods while supporting free trade of domestic goods and stated the cost of a tariff should be seen as an investment in a nation's future productivity.[4] His theories and writing also influenced the American school of economics.
List was a political liberal who collaborated with Karl von Rotteck and Carl Theodor Welcker on the Rotteck-Welckersches Staatslexikon [de], an encyclopedia of political science that advocated constitutional liberalism and which influenced the
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Georg Friedrich List
The German economist Georg Friedrich List (1789-1846) originated the historical theory of economic growth.
Friedrich List was born Aug. 6, 1789, in Reutlingen, Württemberg. He attended Latin school, worked in his father's tannery, and at age 17 became a civil service clerk, rising to ministerial undersecretary in local government. He attended Tübingen University and in 1817 was appointed professor of political economy. In 1818 he formed an association of merchants in Frankfurt, urging the abolition of customs barriers among the German states. Political opposition led to his university resignation in 1819. He was elected to the Württemberg Assembly in 1820 but was expelled in 1822 because of his criticism of the government. To avoid imprisonment he fled the country. On his return to Germany in 1824, he was arrested but released on condition that he emigrate to America.
List farmed near Harrisburg, Pa., and also edited a German newspaper (Der Adler) nära
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Friedrich List, 1789-1846.
Friedrich List was a nationalist/romantic critic of economic theory and one of the forefathers of the German Historical School.
Born in Reutlingen, the son of a tanner, Friedrich List followed a career as an clerk, accountant and bureaucrat in the Kingdom of Württemberg, rising quickly in the administrative ranks and eventually gaining the ear of influential politicians. Despite his lack of formal education, Friedrich List was appointed professor of cameralistics at the University of Tübingen in 1817, but lost his job in 1819, when his ministerial patrons lost theirs. He never regained a teaching post.
List promptly entered politics, and became a liberal member of the Württemburg legislature. On the chamber floor, List was an advocate of the customs union but even more vocal on administrative reforms. But his political views ruffled feathers, and in 1822, List was expelled from the chamber, and put on tri