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Industry entirely left to itself, would soon fall to ruin, and a nation letting everything alone wou...

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It is bad policy to regulate everything... where things may better regulate themselves and can be be...

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Friedrich List

Economist

Born: 1789-08-06

Died: 1846-11-30

Georg Friedrich List (August 6, 1789 – November 30, 1846) was a German born economist and political activist. He was also a public accountant, entrepreneur, publisher, academic professor, German parliamentarian, and American diplomat. List is considered a father of modern development economics, industrial policy, pragmatic customs policy, taxation- , communication- and infrastructure theory, theory of human capital and national innovations systems.More