Economic Nationalism And Globalization: Lessons From Latin America And Central Europe

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 Malowist (Haymarket 2011).

• Note on terminology Introduction PART ONE: RETHINKING ECONOMIC NATIONALISM1. Setting the agenda 2. PrecursorsMercantilist 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 nationalismForeign capital as an enemy? Commodities, capital, migrations Protectionism and foreign capital 5. Beyond liberalism: transformations of political nationalismToward integral nationalism Anti-liberal temptation: autocracy and integral nationalism Latin American liberal-conservative consensus Populist response PART TWO: ECONOMIC NATIONALISM AT WORK6. A proto-nationalist interludeThe 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 AmericaThe 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 ConclusionsReferencesIndex