Nation and Political Economy -A Reflection on List

作     者：Milena Fernandes de Oliveira 

作者机构：University of Campinas-Sao Paulo-Brazil 

出 版 物：《History Research》 (历史研究（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2015年第5卷第4期

页      面：208-224页

学科分类：02[经济学] 03[法学] 0201[经济学-理论经济学] 020101[经济学-政治经济学] 0305[法学-马克思主义理论] 

主　　题：Nation political economy Smith List capitalism 

摘      要：The article intends to work about Friedrich List political economy starting from a specific point of view： idea of nation. Published in 1841, The National System of Political economy establishes a hard dialogue with the Wealth of nations written by Smith. The criticism is built around the idea of nation. In List, the nation, as synonym of productive forces, is a critic to the Smith＇s nation idea as a free market. The List＇s idea of nation is a product of a group of structural （and not only cultural or mental） transformations that occurred during the Revolutions of 1830 and 1848 in Europe. The result is the emergency of a new form of State, the nation-State. The political economy elaborates their critics in the measure in capitalism changes. The nation, in the national system of political economy of List, synthesizes the unification of the territory, the consolidation of the national industry and an internal market free from barriers and interlinked by a modem net of transports. In a contradictory way, that nation idea is based in great territory and its empire and not on the nationality principle, according to which, each people, yet that very small, has the right to its own territory. The unified and industrially developed States build immense empires that, in practical terms, contravene the principle of nationality