The neomercantilists : a global intellectual history / Eric Helleiner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Helleiner, Eric, 1963- author.

Series:

Cornell scholarship online.

Cornell scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mercantile system.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (414 pages)

Place of Publication:

Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2022.

Summary:

At a time when critiques of free trade policies are gaining currency, 'The Neomercantilists' helps make sense of the protectionist turn, providing the first intellectual history of the genealogy of neomercantilism. Eric Helleiner identifies many pioneers of this ideology between the late eighteenth and early twentieth centuries who backed strategic protectionism and other forms of government economic activism to promote state wealth and power. They included not just the famous Friedrich List, but also numerous lesser-known thinkers, many of whom came from outside of the West.

Contents:

Some pioneers in List's North Atlantic context

Friedrich List's idiosyncratic synthesis

Some List-inspired contributions across the world

List-inspired neomercantilism beyond the nation-state

The emergence of Henry Carey's distinctive vision

The global influence and adaptation of Carey's ideas

Local origins in Japan: Ōkubo Toshimichi, Fukuzawa Yukichi, and Maeda Masana

Neglected Chinese pioneers: Wei Yuan, Zheng Guanying, and Sun Yatsen

Liang Qichao and Korea's gaehwa group

Early theorists in Russia and the Canadian backwoods

Practitioners in Egypt, Poland and Latin America

The Asante and the Pan-African movement

Conclusion: what legacies?

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2021.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on May 2, 2022).

ISBN:

1-5017-8685-7

1-5017-6012-2

OCLC:

1233023263