Gesammelte Schriften, herausgegeben von Ludwig Häusser. Erster Theil - Zweiter Theil - Dritter Theil [all published].

First edition. Three volumes bound in one. 8vo. [10], 412; [4], 468, [2, blank]; xlviii, 413 [3, blank] pp. Contemporary quarter roan with marbled paper covered boards, spine panelled with gilt and black rules, second panel lettered in gilt on light brown roan label, marbled endpapers (engraved bookplate of 'Friederike von Belli de Pino' to front pastedown, faint trace of faded early ink signature to title of Vol. 1, some occasional foxing and browning to margins; rebacked with the original spine laid-down, neatly recornered). Stuttgart und Tübingen, J.G. Cotta'scher Verlag.

The first collected edition of the works of the German economist Friedrich List (1789-1846), including his major work Das national System der politischen Oekonomie (originally published 1841).

List was one of the earliest and most severe critics of the classical school of political economy. List 'denounced Adam Smith and his disciples as the "cosmopolitan school" and held that universal free trade was an ideal that could be achieved only in the far distant future. For the time being, he argued, each nation should foster the development of its own manufactures by import duties and even outright prohibitions. Only by such means could countries like Germany, Russia and the United States ever hope to achieve the industrial efficiency that would enable them to compete on equal terms with Britain.' List never used the term "infant industry" but the infant industry argument is clearly what he had in mind because he specifically excluded agriculture from all his protectionist arguments and even conceded that global free trade was an ultimate desirable goal In recent times, List has been hailed not so much as a spokesman for protectionism as a champion of the ambitions of underdeveloped countries. No doubt he was one of the first to recognise the role of national power in the international division of labour and present-day advocates of the dependency school of economic development may legitimately regard him as a forerunner' (Blaug, Great Economists before Keynes, pp. 129f).

A complete edition of List's works would not appear until 1927-1935.

Stock Code: 245933