Wendler Eugen. Friedrich List (1789-1846): A Visionary Economist with Social Responsibility

Springer, 2015. — 292 p. — ISBN: 978-3-642-54553-5 ; ISBN: 978-3-642-54554-2.This book invites its readers to rediscover Friedrich List in the twenty-first century. The book itself is an important part of this rediscovery. Professor Wendler lets Friedrich List speak to us, he places List’s journalistic and political work in its historical as well as contemporary context and acquaints us with List’s personal life and personality. The readers get to know Friedrich List as a man who was so talented and well versed in so many fields and yet whose life seemed to have been ill-omened.
Friedrich List was one of the great statures of the German Vorm€arz, a pioneer also in the history of the USA, a democratic avant-garde of the European spring of 1848 and a prophet and enunciator of the technological and economical “transition of the world” in the nineteenth century. We have all become heirs of these developments, the good as well as the bad. List rightly deserves his place in the history of economic theory and political economy. Furthermore, he contributed to establishing a progressive as well as competent journalism.