GÜLICH, Gustav von.

Ueber die gegenwärtige Lage des englischen und des deutschen Handels mit einer allgemeinen Uebersicht der Fortschritte der Production und Consumtion in Europa und Amerika.

Göttingen, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1834. 8vo, pp. [x], 250, [1] errata, [1] imprint; early MS shelfmark to the front pastedown, some light offsetting, else a very good copy in a contemporary binding of full emerald cloth, very lightly sunned, small printed paper label (‘Lese-Verein’) at foot of the front board, MS paper spine label. First and only edition of a very rare work of economic literature, in a fine example of a provincial library binding.Gustav von Gülich (1791–1847) appears to have been exasperated by his fellow Germans’ unquestioning acceptance of imported economic thought, and it is clearly with the aim of providing an alternative view that the present work was written. A brief survey of European economic history and various descriptions of economies throughout the world are used to demonstrate how periods of protectionism can be beneficial to technologically less advanced nations. By referring to the economic aftermath of recent events such as the Napoleonic Wars and the revolutions in France, Belgium and Poland, the author also underlines the impotence of economic theory in the face of unrelenting historical reality, while illustrating the unexpected economic benefits of wartime isolationism.Although the scope of Gülich’s writing is impressively international, the author focusses on the need for the German states to cooperate in the face of foreign economic superiority: for instance, it is implied that the American experience of economic expansion following the imposition of protective tariffs should be imitated by the ‘Zollverein’. Ueber die gegenwärtige Lage des englischen und des deutschen Handels … is a call for a German response to German problems and, ultimately, for German unity: ‘Allein, wir wiederholen es nochmals, nur wenn ganz Deutschland sich als ganzes ansieht, und die kleinlichen Interessen der einzelnen deutschen Staaten schwinden, namentlich auch Preußen erkennt, daß kein Heil nur in dem des übrigen Deutschland zu finden ist’ (p. 214).Not in Goldsmiths’, Humpert, Kress or Menger; not in OCLC; RLIN lists 2 copies only (Minnesota and Michigan).

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