ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the reception of Friedrich List by the historian of economic thought Noboru Kobayashi. However, the following three periods provide a general overview of research on Friedrich List in Japan: from the Meiji Restoration to the beginning of the 1930s, during the Chinese-Japanese war, and after the end of the Chinese-Japanese, or the Second World War. The chapter presents Kobayashi’s research on Friedrich List. Numerous theories within Kobayashi’s interpretation of List are based on his “complete reading of the large List edition”, i.e. all its volumes, so the Japanese economic historian Minoru Morota considers Kobayashi’s research on List a “reliable lexicon of List”. Kobayashi’s German articles are not very polemical, particularly when it comes to his discussion in a foreign language. This is due to his courteous Old Japanese character. List believed the cultivated areas in the “hinterland” should belong to the mother country.
