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Friedrich List

1789 - 1846

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Daniel Friedrich List (6 August 1789 – 30 November 1846) was a German entrepreneur, diplomat, economist and political theorist who developed the nationalist theory of political economy in both Europe and the United States. He was a forefather of the German historical school of economics and argued for the Zollverein (a pan-German customs union) from a nationalist standpoint. He advocated raising tariffs on imported goods while supporting free trade of domestic goods and stated the cost of a tariff should be seen as an investment in a nation's future productivity. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Friedrich List has received more than 492,565 page views. His biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 33 in 2019). Friedrich List is the 43rd most popular economist (down from 40th in 2019), the 579th most popular biography from Germany (down from 504th in 2019) and the 4th most popular German Economist.

Friedrich List was a German economist who was most famous for his "National System of Political Economy" which advocated protectionism and government intervention in the economy.

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Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, Friedrich List ranks 43 out of 414. Before him are Wassily Leontief, Karl Polanyi, Frédéric Bastiat, Robert Solow, Maurice Allais, and Ronald Coase. After him are Paul Krugman, Bernard Mandeville, Gary Becker, Eugen Böhm von Bawerk, William Stanley Jevons, and Murray Rothbard.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1789, Friedrich List ranks 5. Before him are Georg Ohm, Augustin-Louis Cauchy, Ibrahim Pasha of Egypt, and James Fenimore Cooper. After him are Stéphanie de Beauharnais, María Isabella of Spain, Horace Vernet, Johann Friedrich Overbeck, Abbas Mirza, Heinrich Schwabe, and Princess Charlotte of Denmark. Among people deceased in 1846, Friedrich List ranks 5. Before him are Pope Gregory XVI, Louis Bonaparte, Friedrich Bessel, and Emperor Ninkō. After him are Andrew Kim Taegon, Francis IV, Duke of Modena, Adam Johann von Krusenstern, Giuseppe Acerbi, Rodolphe Töpffer, Otto von Kotzebue, and Princess Maria Anna of Hesse-Homburg.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Friedrich List ranks 579 out of 7,253. Before him are Hans Georg Dehmelt (1922), Elisabeth of Wied (1843), Adolphe, Grand Duke of Luxembourg (1817), Caroline Augusta of Bavaria (1792), Horst Wessel (1907), and Otto Rehhagel (1938). After him are Dietrich Eckart (1868), Augusta of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (1811), Bert Hellinger (1925), Walter Scheel (1919), Roman Herzog (1934), and Robert the Strong (900).

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Among ECONOMISTS In Germany

Among economists born in Germany, Friedrich List ranks 4. Before him are Karl Marx (1818), Klaus Schwab (1938), and Wassily Leontief (1906). After him are Werner Sombart (1863), Johann Heinrich von Thünen (1783), Eugen Dühring (1833), Franz Oppenheimer (1864), Alfred Weber (1868), Gottfried Feder (1883), Hermann Heinrich Gossen (1810), and Lorenz von Stein (1815).

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