The neomercantilists : a global intellectual history / / Eric Helleiner [[electronic resource]]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910554225503321
• Autore: Helleiner Eric <1963->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Ithaca : , : Cornell University Press, , 2022
• ISBN: 1-5017-6012-2
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (414 pages)
• Collana: Cornell scholarship online
• Disciplina: 330.15/13
• Soggetti: Mercantile system
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Previously issued in print: 2021.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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?
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.