Economic Nationalism and Globalization
Lessons from Latin America and Central Europe
Henryk Szlajfer, Warsaw University and Polish Academy of Sciences
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Biographical note
Henryk Szlajfer, Ph.D. (1977) in Sociology and Habilitation (2006) in Political Sciences, is Professor at the Institute of Americas and Europe, Warsaw University, and the Institute of Political Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences. He has published on Latin American economic and political modern history and European international affairs. Co-editor of Western Europe, Eastern Europe and World Development 13th–18th Centuries. Collection of Essays of Marian Małowist (Brill 2010).
Readership
All those interested in economic history of and theorizing on underdevelopment and globalization and attempts at industrialization, and anyone concerned with the comparative studies on Latin America and Central Europe.
Table of contents
Note 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
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
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