mercantilism

Examples

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• For instance, the Ottoman elite had no interest in mercantilism and did not even use tariffs to collect revenue.

  Academic text (2000)

• By imperialism, protectionism, and mercantilism, nations eventually wither and weaken into third-world stagnation.

  Academic text (1991)

• You know, the British practicing mercantilism were passed Navigation Acts saying what ships could carry what and so on.

• France's historical mercantilism is clearly still alive, as demonstrated by its repeated efforts to hold Japanese competition at bay.

  Academic text (1990)

• At the same time, the colonists began to calculate the difference to be gained from being independent from British laws of mercantilism.

  Academic text (2017)

• By redirecting American manufacturing capacity to the military-industrial complex, Washington practices its own form of mercantilism.

  Blog text (32)

• Instead, traditional balance of power politics, mercantilism, and instrumental nationalism continue all too often to make life "nasty, brutish, and short."

  Academic text (2000)

• Eli Heckscher, the leading scholar of mercantilism, once called this part of The Wealth of Nations an emphatic piece of free trade propaganda.

  Academic text (1992)

• The beggar-thy-neighbor strategies of mercantilism—of trade as a weapon of the state—will collapse before the strategies of globalization.

  Academic text (1991)

• In the 18th century, British policymakers used mercantilism to strengthen the nation's economy through strict trade regulations.

Synonyms

M

mercantile system

vsmercantilism

• Formal

9.5

A policy that makes a country richer by controlling trade and keeping gold and silver

stresses increasing national wealth and power more broadly

Antonyms

F

free trade

57 3.5

Buying and selling between countries without government taxes or limits

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Etymology