RISE OF NATIONALISM IN EUROPE (SOURCE BASED QUE)

Source-Based Questions

"Economists began to think in terms of the national economy. They talked of how the nation could develop and what economic measures could help forge this nation together. Friedrich List, Professor of Economics at the University of Tubingen in Germany, wrote in 1834: ‘The aim of the zollverein is to bind the Germans economically into a nation. It will strengthen the nation materially as much by protecting its interest externally as by stimulating its internal productivity. It ought to awaken and raise national sentiment through a fusion of individual and provincial interests. The German people have realised that a free economic system is the only means to engender national feeling.’"

(i) What was the view of the German economists?

Answer: The German economists thought in terms of the national economy. They were concerned about how the nation could develop and what economic measures could forge their nation together.

(ii) Who was Friedrich List? How did he explain the Zollverein?

Answer: Friedrich List was a Professor of Economics at the University of Tübingen in Germany. He explained that the Zollverein aimed at binding the Germans economically into a nation. He viewed that it would strengthen the nation materially as much by protecting its interest externally as by stimulating its internal productivity.