National System of Political Economy: History (National System of Political Economy)

Rating:
Summary: Great Book but very poor publisher
Review: List's systems of political economy belong to one of the most underrated classics in the fields. What differentiates his work in contrast to all other political economists is that he analyzes economic action from a specifically political angle. Despite Paul Krugman's harsh verdict (in Foreign Affairs, July/August 1994, p.202) against List in his rejoinder to the so called pop-economists: as long as the world is divided into nation-states, international political economy has to analyze both: the logic of markets AND the logic of power among nations.

BUT: the book edition of Dry boones press is terribly bad. I have the impression that they have simply downloaded the internet version of List's National system from ECONLIB and put it between a cover and a back. Horrible, how is it possible that classics can be treated and humilated in this way? A real shame!