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Friedrich List

1789 - 1846

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Georg Friedrich List (6 August 1789 – 30 November 1846) was a German-American 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Friedrich List has received more than 460,222 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia. Friedrich List is the 41st most popular economist (down from 29th in 2019), the 504th most popular biography from Germany (down from 410th 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 41 out of 315. Before him are Karl Polanyi, Benjamin Graham, Elinor Ostrom, Wassily Leontief, Ragnar Frisch, and Thorstein Veblen. After him are Gary Becker, Jacques Attali, Jan Tinbergen, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Frédéric Bastiat, and John Hicks.

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Contemporaries

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

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Friedrich List ranks 504 out of 6,142. Before him are Wilhelm Schickard (1592), Werner von Fritsch (1880), Julia Drusilla (16), Patrick Süskind (1949), Otto Fritz Meyerhof (1884), and August Weismann (1834). After him are Aby Warburg (1866), Kurt Student (1890), Erich Kästner (1899), Otto Carius (1922), Hans Adolf Krebs (1900), and Otto Diels (1876).

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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), Gottfried Feder (1883), Eugen Dühring (1833), Hermann Heinrich Gossen (1810), Alfred Weber (1868), Lorenz von Stein (1815), and Oskar Morgenstern (1902).

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