Neomercantilists: A Global Intellectual History Helleiner Eric
Neomercantilists: A Global Intellectual History Helleiner Eric At a time when critiques of free trade policies are gaining currency, The Neomercantilists helps make sense of the protectionist turn,…
Specifikacia Neomercantilists: A Global Intellectual History Helleiner Eric
Neomercantilists: A Global Intellectual History Helleiner Eric
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. They included not just the famous Friedrich List, but also by numerous lesser-known thinkers, many of whom came from outside of the West.Helleiner's novel emphasis on neomercantilism's diverse origins challenges traditional Western-centric understandings of its history. 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.
It illuminates neglected local intellectual traditions and international flows of ideas that gave rise to distinctive varieties of the ideology