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this country his writings have not
been without influence. It is to be
hoped that the excellent volume
under review may be published in
this country in translation and thus
be rendered even more useful"
Ser befonnte Notionol0tonom Or.
s. Barter Wilis bon Der Columbia
llniberlitp, befaBte fiH nit benz Scot.
Iden @erfe IN Der American @cenO.
mic 0iebiew, December, 1882, PIP.
699-700, pie folgt:
"In the present volume DIR. Notz
offers material which is especially
interesting to students of American
history as well as to students Of
the history of economic thought.
The writings thus presented include
certain essays and sketches relating
to what the author calls American
political economy" and dealing pri-
marily with the protective question.
Apart from the outline of Ameri-
can political economy, there is a
series of fragments on other topics
and some interesting letters written
by Friedrich List to various public
men in the United States. Beside
the foregoing are extracts from
newspapers in which List had ex-
pressed his views on current public
questions and then a group OF
Occasional pieces" including more
letters, proposals for legislative I'm
dertakings, and the like. DR.. Notz
has added a series of valuable notes,
intended to explain discrepancies
and changes in the text as well as
to throw light upon the contempt
rary situation which existed at the
time of the writings themselves.
There is no doubt about the value
Of the work of Friedrich List, moi
any question of its place in the his
tory of the political economy of the
nineteenth century. Some will
always doubt whether his contribu-
ton to American political discus.
sions and his analyses of the tariff
question as considered in the United
States present anything more than
an incident in his scientific career
and an incident which on the whole
does not illustrate him at his best.
This, however, is not the question
which deserves consideration at the
hands of the student of the present
volume. It remains a fact that List
and his work were for several years
a significant factor in the life of the
nation and that a material service
is rendered by putting into consec-
utive shape his writings of that
period. To those who follow the
history of American protectionism
with sympathy, the work of Fried
rich List will always offer material
of exceptional interest, since it was
through him that the early Phila
delphia protectionists first were a.
Bile to make a claim that the policy
they urged had a sound economic
basis. In time past the sources of
information concerning economic
discussion and the evolution of
economic ideas in the United States
have been all too few and it has
frequently seemed that a great deal
of current discussion of American
economic beginnings lacked solid
sources of information. So far as
relates to Friedrich List, the pre-
sent volume will enable the student
to avoid any such danger.
The editing of Lists writings
has been carefully done and the
cancellations and notes, are the
scholarly work of a sympathetic
student"
grofeiior aorl SO. 8igelotp, Uni
periitp of Buffalo, duBerte fi6 i'm
SDMrnaI Of HDlitical GcDnOmb, 81
pril. 1888, iiber Die Nob-Musgabe
Ser atnerifanii1e Sdriften Gifts in
Ser ~folgenoen @eiie:
"The exact extent of the infu
ence upon List, the later author of
DaS rationale System der poIiti-
scheD Oekonomie of his seven-year
residence in the United States has
long been discussed. That the first
expressed his characteristic views
in the Outlines of american Politi-
cal Economy philadelphia, 1927
and that his ideas were consider
ably affected by his study Of Amer
lean economic life have never been
disputed. The amount and nature
of his Indebtedness to the American
economist, Raymond, however, has
been the subject of a long-continu-
ing controversy. Less attention has
been paid to Lists counter-inhuence
upon his temporarily adopted
country.
Understanding of these matters
will be greatly advanced by this
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