ABSTRACT
As is well known, modern Germany had a significantly different path of development than its Western neighbors both politically and economically. The first detailed studies and plans to comprehensively improve the economy of the considerably fragmented German-speaking areas, which were divided into a number of principalities and duchies, and help them catch up with contemporary centralized states (Great Britain and France) were completed in the 1840s and 1850s. Scientific discourse evolving around this topic was strongly related to nationalist movements, which emerged at the time and sought to create a unified German (nation) state. Several different paths and aims were widely known, and they resulted in a series of political and military conflicts. 1
