This may be the sort of thing that Michael L. was referring to:
List wrote: "if we are to learn how entire nations achieve prosperity and affluence, we must not confine ourselves to an enquiry as to the way in which individuals produce tangible goods, distribute them amongst themselves and consume them. Such would be a methodology which might satisfy the individual merchant, manufacturer or farmer, but to the statesman and legislator it must appear as not adequate for his greater efficacy. For him it is not so much a matter of amassing valuable objects in the hands of individuals, but rather of assembling those forces and those institutions by which the welfare of the whole nation is produced and assured." List, F. 1839. "The Nature and Value of a Nation's Forces of Production." in "Friedrich List's Gesammelte Schriften." ed. Ludwig Haeuffer (J. G. Cotta'scher Verlag, Stuttgart and Tuebingen, 1850): vol. 2, p. 101 But German thought in general was skeptical about individualistic analysis. Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 530 898 5321 fax 530 898 5901 http://michaelperelman.wordpress.com
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