🔴 **Friedrich List, Excerpt from National System of Political Economy (1841)**

“_A critic of the free-market thinker Adam Smith and his followers, List argued that less developed economies like Germany’s required protective tariffs on manufactured goods to allow their fledgling industries to grow._”

Friedrich List, Excerpt from National System of Political Economy (1841), published in: German History in Documents and Images, <https://germanhistorydocs.org/en/from-vormaerz-to-prussian-dominance-1815-1866/ghdi:document-354> [March 27, 2025].

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