Abstract: Friedrich List (1789-1846) zählt zu den international renommiertesten Klassikern der Politischen Ökonomie. Sein Hauptwerk „Das nationale System der politischen Ökonomie“ von 1841 gehört nach John Carter und Percy H. Muir zu den herausragenden Publikationen der abendländischen...

Adam Smith proposed three contradictory theories of the British Empire in the Wealth of Nations. The first view holds that the empire was created for merchants eager to monopolize the colonial trade. Smith concludes that “Great Britain derives nothing but loss” from the colonies. In the...

"In this book, Ben Fine selects and adds to his key articles tracking economics imperialism through three phases, focusing on the last decade of the third phase - anything goes as with freakonomics. Each article is accompanied by a preamble setting the context in which it appeared, with a new...

"In this book, Ben Fine offers a selection of his key articles charting the rise of economics imperialism. Each article is accompanied by a preamble that sets the context in which it appeared, with an overall introduction drawing out the overall significance for contemporary scholarship"--