Name: Liberal Nationalism: What Does it Mean?
Uploaded: 2019-07-19
Duration: 6 min 43 s
Description: Liberal nationalism promised equality and freedom for all in the eyes of the law. But did it keep that promise? Watch this video to find out.

Question

Describe the political ends that Friedrich List hopes to achieve through economic measures.

Accepted Answer

Economists like Freidrich List began to think of unifying the national economy. They believed in how a nation's economy could help forge political unity. It can be discussed as follows:

He advocated that, Zollverein is a much-needed way to bind Germans into a nation. Zollverein can be understood as a custom union. It was formed at the initiative of Prussia and joined by most of the German states. This union removed internal tariff barriers and reduced the over thirty currencies to two currencies.

Besides this, the aim of the union was to bind the Germans economically into a nation by strengthening the nation economically by protection its interests externally and increasing internal productivity.

Zollverein was an effective way of boosting national sentiments with combination of individual and state interests.

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