Friedrich List 1841 National System Political Economy

NATIONAL SYSTEM sf. OF POLITICAL ECONOMY. BY FREDERICK LIST. TRANSLATED FROM THE GERMAN BY G. A. MATILE, DOCTOR OP CIVIL LAW; LATE PROFESSOR OF LAW AT NEÜFCHATEL; MEMBER OF THE AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY, ETC. INCLUDING THE NOTES OF THE FRENCH TRANSLATION, BY HENRI EICHELOT Chef du Bureau de la Législation des Douanes Etrangères au Ministère du Commerce de France; Auteur de l'Histoire de la Réforme Commerciale en Angleterre, et de l'Association Douanière Allemande. f nünümi ê$n% oft $aU$, BY STEPHEN COLWELL PHILADELPHIA: J. B. LIPPINC OTT & C 0. 1856. Entered, according to the Act of Congress, in the year 1856, by J. B. LIPPINCOTT & CO., in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States in and for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. PREFACE TO THE AMERICAN EDITION. (by the translator.) Frederick List* was born, the 6th August, 1789, at Reutlingen, a free city of Suabia. His early education was incomplete. At the Classical School he exhibited so little taste for its studies, that his father withdrew him; but as he showed equal indisposition to learn his father's business, he was subsequently left to shape his own education. This he did, however, to such purpose, that we find him, in 1816, holding an appointment in the Central Administration of Wurtemberg, in which he justified the confidence placed in him by a distinguished statesman, t…