...Mauro Boianovsky The goal of this article is twofold. It examines how Friedrich List’s interpretation of the economic dynamics of “tropical” countries (countries located in tropical climates) as nonindustrial exporters of primary commodities fits in his analytical framework and accords with his...

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... adapted to capitalist needs, Hobson was not convinced that any long-lasting development would be the outcome of Western penetration. In Africa there was “the ever growing demand for tropical and an abundant overflow of capital from modern industrial states, seeking an investment...

... of tropical tributaries. A few years later, in 1782, he felt his argument was bolstered when he discovered that Emanuel Swedenborg had drawn (and this surely was a sign) a map of Africa in his Diarium spirituale. In 1784, Sweden did indeed acquire a (miniature) West In- dian colony, St. Bart’s. Two years...

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