mercantilist
3
9.4
- noun
- /mɜrˈkæn.tɪ.lɪst/
- Formal
:
mercantilista
- As a strong advocate of trade regulation, the economist proudly identified himself as a mercantilist.
- mercantilist policy
- mercantilist view of trade
Examples
-
The process of getting there has been described by Martin Wolf as mercantilist bargaining.
Academic text (1993) -
The debate about government intervention in the economy often highlights the views of mercantilists versus those who support laissez-faire principles.
-
I disagree, though, that national GDP would be the correct way to measure mercantilist growth.
Blog text (32) -
Taiwan's economic policy toward mainland China follows the mercantilist model of trade regulation.
Academic text (1996) -
Nor do the patterns reviewed above support the view of Japan as a mercantilist predator.
Academic text (1992) -
The resulting system is a mercantilist one, which could be characterized as an antidemocratic form of capitalism.
Academic text (1997) -
Mercantilists are going to be in competition with other mercantilists for export market share.
Blog text (26) -
Eighteenth-century mercantilist assumptions instead became a way to promote national refinement.
Academic text (1990) -
Of course, the logic of free riding rests on either a mercantilist view of trade or the bargaining inherent in domestic politics.
Academic text (1994) -
The ability to compete in a world that is half-mercantilist, half-free is inescapably tied to effective trade policy.
Blog text (16)
How Supportive
Surface Forms
Morphology
mercantilist = mercantile (transparent) = mercantile + ist
The suffix '-ist' is commonly used to form nouns indicating a person who practices or supports a specific theory or activity.
Etymology
Mercantilist comes from the same root as merchant and the Latin mercari ('to trade') and merx ('goods'). So a mercantilist is a person who believes the government should control 'trade' to increase a nation's 'wealth'.