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Book SynopsisHenryk Szlajfer offers, against the background of developments in Latin America (mainly Brazil) and Central Europe (mainly Poland) in times of first globalisation from late 19th century until late 1930s, a reinterpretation of economic nationalism both as an analytical category and historical experience. Critically explored are attempts at proto-economic nationalism in early 19th century Poland and Latin America.
Table of ContentsNote on terminology Introduction PART ONE: RETHINKING ECONOMIC NATIONALISM 1. Setting the agenda 2. Precursors Mercantilist antecedents: ‘The improvement of our Lands’ Friedrich List and his System: ‘an English State secret’ John Maynard Keynes: ‘if we happen to want it’ 3. Categories National economy: elusive concept? Holistic and particularistic nationalisms Digression: the state 4. Against ‘wishes and dreams’: foreign capital and economic nationalism Foreign capital as an enemy? Commodities, capital, migrations Protectionism and foreign capital 5. Beyond liberalism: transformations of political nationalism Toward integral nationalism Anti-liberal temptation: autocracy and integral nationalism Latin American liberal-conservative consensus Populist response PART TWO: ECONOMIC NATIONALISM AT WORK 6. A proto-nationalist interlude The Kingdom of Poland and Latin America: similarities and dissimilarities After discontinuité structurelle Variants of industrialization Selected problems Failure and some long-term consequences 7. Issues in primary-sector nationalism: Latin America The heritage: a note An internationalist protectionist state Varieties of the export sector and economic nationalism The regional dimension Transformational potential of primary-sector nationalism 8. Pieces of a puzzle: toward holistic nationalism The restrained nationalism of industrialists Holistic nationalism as an enforced process Against foreign domination: yes, but ‘Those who don’t obey the rules win’: beyond orthodoxy ‘Economic independence’ as state business: étatisme Conclusions References Index
