Examine:
(a)Economists views on the making of nationalism.
(b)Stand of liberalism
(a) 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 the nation together. Friedrich List, Professor of Economics at the University of Tubingen in Germany expressed that zollverein, a customs union wiil strenghthen the nation materially as much by proctecting its interest externally as by stimulating its internal productivy.
(b)Liberalism had stood for the end of autocracy and clerical privileges, a constitution and representatives goverment through parliament. It had also stressed the inviolability of private property. In the economic sphere, Liberalism stood for the freedom of markets and the abolition of state- imposed restrictions on the movement of goods and capital.
