“For the more rapid the growth of a spirit of industrial invention and improvement, of social and political reform, the wider becomes the gap between stationary and progressive nations, and the more dangerous it is to remain on the further side.”

— Friedrich List

Introduction, in Hirst (1909), pp. 287–288
The National System of Political Economy (1841)

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German economist with dual American citizenship 1789–1846

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