[...]... organic links between economic processes taking place within the boundaries of a country and those taking place beyond these boundaries This definition involves the notion of insulating - though not necessarily isolating - a country from the rest of the world It involves the notion of a country's seeking more "autonomy" in its economic life than it would· have in a well-knit system of economic internationalism... make the economic intercourse between residents of a country and people living beyond its boundaries more difficult than is economic intercourse among people living within the country Now this definition would include protectionism within the concept ot economic nationalism, which thus might appear at first glance to bea distinct advantage The more restrictive definition~ by equating economic nationalism. .. address on "Economic Nationalism" delivered at the Harvard Tercentenary Conference of Arts and Sciences, he made the following pertinent comments: To define economic nationalism as the economics of nationalism would be neither accurate nor illuminating It would be inaccurate, because the policies which some acclaim as economic nationalism in their own country and which all denounce as such in their neighbours'... inquiry into the economic literature of the past two centuries, and finally arrives at the following definition: ' \1 11 we wished to define economic nationalism by its underlying purpose, we should say that it was a doctrine destined to serves the nation by making it not richer, but freer, by promoting not its material welfare, but its independence of foreign influences Economic nationalism is the... spirit of nationalism Nor would such a definition be illuminating, because nationalism itself would 1 G G Hodgson: Economic Nationalism, The Reference Shelf, New York, The H.W Wilson Company, 1933 This short book is a compilation of texts from the economic literature relating to economic nationalism The experimental character of the terminology used appears from the following sentence in the introduction:... term "economic nationalism" , the first instance that I have found, prominently displayed, is in the title ofa book by Leo Pasvolsky, published by the Brookings Institution in Washington in 1928: Economic Nationalism of the Danubian States It was after the outbreak of the Great Depression and the collapse of the precarious reconstruction of world economy achieved during the twenties, that the term economic. .. stimulating by national planning the industrial development of a country, favour monetary nationalisnl along with other measures, indeed as a condition for effective national planning More about this in Chapter VII To conclude this long discussion of the concept of economic nationalism, the following definition may be proposed: economic nationalism is a body oj economic ptllicies aimed at the loosening... notions of "nationalism tt and "national policy" can become mixed To resolve the confusion and thereby provide the reader with a further insight into what economic nationalism is, m,ay I be excused for quoting the following observations from an earlier volume of mine; they were written twenty years ago and express the attitude I have maintained throughout my studies of economic nationalism: In a world... economic nationalism and collectivism, on the other It is these two concepts, collectivism and liberalism, which I shall endeavour to define, in Chapter II, in their relation to economis nationalism VI The line of thought developed in the previous section of this chapter might lead to a definition of economic nationalism wider than that proposed by Professor Rappard Thus economic nationalism might be defined... appears from the following sentence in the introduction: "At best economic nationalism is an indefinite term, used by its opponents, more than, by its proponents." It is of interest to note that any texts reprinted in the book which use the expression "economic nationalism" are posterior to 1930 -18 remain to be defined Economic and political nationalism, if they cannot be regarded merely as two aspects . PUBLICATIONS DE L'INSTITUT UNIVERSITAIRE DE HAUTES ETUDES INTERNATIONALES - N° 36 MICHAEL A. HEILPERIN STUDIES IN ECONOMIC NATIONALISM LIBRAIRIE E. DROZ 8, rue Verdaine GENEYE 1960 LIBRAIRIE MINARD 73, rue Cardinal Lemoine PARIS ye