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Friedrich List combines different political inspirations, often due to the French and Italian environments. To know the first, this chapter reconstructs the influence List receives during his stays in Paris. These experiences are important in writing his works and lead to identifying a “think tank” from which List takes and gives. Namely, all List’s work takes into account the influence of Jean-Baptiste Say; albeit always criticized, an entire chapter of the Nationale System is devoted to this author. The other French economists that influence his work are Chaptal, Dupin and Ferrier. Then, after giving space to List’s claims on the Italian economic history, the chapter focuses on the author’s attitude to being received in Italy; a country similar to Germany, from the perspective of that nation’s political and economic fragmentation. In this case, List’s influence appears tempered by various doctrinal and practical elements due to the germanesimo economico.
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Todd (2015, p. 230) maintains that the chief cause of the defeat of French free trade can be found in the emergence of an (alternative) interpretation of 1789, justifying the protection in order to defend the economic and social legacy of the Revolution.
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The Italian economist was resident in Switzerland from birth but succeeded to Say’s chair of political economy at the College of France. Steven Colwell, the editor of the American translation of the Nationale System, writes: “The rise of Rossi in France, was not only rapid, but high, and well sustained by his whole career. His abilities were regarded as of the highest order in a city where there is at all times a congregation of the first men in the world. He was looked upon in France as one of the most eminent Political Economists of his day” (List [1841] 1856, p. xlii).
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The author thanks Simona Gregori for her suggestions and the scholars who discussed and commented on an earlier version of the paper at the 9th conference of the Iberian Association of the History of Economic Thought (Valencia, 4 December 2015).
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Spalletti, S. (2017). A Comparative Analysis of the Relationship Between Friedrich List and French and Italian Culture. In: Soliani, R. (eds) Economic Thought and Institutional Change in France and Italy, 1789–1914. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25354-1_5
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