FRIEDRICH LIST AND THE 'CHINA GROWTH MODEL' In the western world, the study and practice of economics are neoclassical syntheses, Neo-liberal, Austrian economics and Keynesian (especially during the crises). If a country is not following the same principle of liberalism or classicism, then it is supposed to be cheating and defying the science of economics. The punching bag of such economic agents is usually socialism/Marxism/central planning, which is often ridiculed of its existence. The blog post describes neither the existing western neo-liberal order nor Marxism. It mainly describes a large scale experiment of 'the German model' pioneered by Friedrich List, in China and in the East Asian Countries before China's emergence. Friedrich List's development model comes from his study of the United States of America in the 19th Century.