Document Type : Research

Authors

• Hamidreza Fartookzadeh ¹
• Ruhollah Jafari ²

¹ Professor, Department of Management, Faculty of Management and Industrial Engineering, Malek Ashtar University of Technology, Tehran, Iran

² PhD graduate in Political Science, Faculty of Law and Political Science, Allame Tabatabai University, Tehran, Iran

Abstract

Friedrich List formulated the role of the state in economic and industrial development with concepts such as productive power, nation, population, and protection by bringing up the national political economy. Emphasizing the protection of selected emerging industries, he pointed out the necessity of industrial competitiveness in foreign trade for the backward countries. According to him, neglecting production power stabilizes the role of a country in foreign trade as an exporter of raw materials and an importer of manufactured goods. The purpose of rereading List's National System of Political Economy is to reflect on the role of the state in the process of industrialization and to understand the dilemma of industrialization in Iran. From List's point of view, Iran's industrial challenges are not only caused by the neglect of the geopolitical and geoeconomic aspects of industrialization and production but also by the neglect of the inadequacies and misrepresentations of the basic concepts of industrialization, including protection. In the final section of the article, the implications that re-reading List's book can have for the re-reading of Iran's geo-economic advantages are mentioned.

Keywords

• Competitiveness
• Industrialization
• Productive Power
• Protection
• Trade

Main Subjects

• political science