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6 unusual facts about Friedrich List


Bavarian Ludwig Railway

Bavarian interest was also stimulated by Friedrich List’s advocacy of an all-German railway system and the reports of Joseph von Baader, whom King Ludwig had sent to England to study railways.

Cologne-Minden Railway Company

This route is similar to that advocated by the economist Friedrich List in 1833.

Enrique Mosconi

In Germany he became acquainted with the ideas of Friedrich List (1789–1846), an economist whose industrialist ideas had great influence in Europe and the United States.

Hessian Ludwig Railway

In addition, the pioneer of the German railways, Friedrich List, personally championed the building of a line from Mainz to Worms.

Leipzig–Dresden Railway Company

Tenner's idea gained new impetus after the state economist in Leipzig, Friedrich List, publicised his plans for a German railway system in 1833, in which it was envisaged that Leipzig would function as a central hub.

Productive forces

Marx and Engels probably derived the concept from Adam Smith's reference to the "productive powers of labour" (see e.g. chapter 8 of The Wealth of Nations), although the German political economist Friedrich List also mentions the concept of "productive powers" in The National System of Political Economy (1841).



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