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mercantilism /ˈməːk(ə)ntəˌlɪz(ə)m / /məːˈkæntɪlɪz(ə)m /noun [mass noun]1Belief in the benefits of profitable trading.Who benefits from mercantilism is no mystery: look at the list of lobbyists and signatories to the complaints....- Regulation then as now is a form of mercantilism that benefits some at the expense of others.
- Historians have been dubious about the benefits of mercantilism, but they have also been unanimous in attributing much of Spain's industrial and commercial underdevelopment to the absence of such policies.
1.1 historical The economic theory that trade generates wealth and is stimulated by the accumulation of profitable balances, which a government should encourage by means of protectionism.Privateers operated within the political economy of mercantilism, which recognized the expansion or protection of a nation's trade as a legitimate purpose of war....- Instead the programs associated with Alexander Hamilton introduced a system of mercantilism, discarding free trade in favor of tariff protection for manufactured goods.
- Originally free trade was not like mercantilism, where the government monopolizes and otherwise hinders the right to trade across borders.
Derivativesmercantilist noun & adjective ...- These countries now have bunker mentalities that are driving them toward mercantilist policies, and they continue to run large trade surpluses as a consequence.
- In general terms, mercantilists had persuaded the public that increased prosperity is directly connected with exports, making export bounties seem naturally in the public interest.
- For some in the mercantilist tradition, augmentation of national wealth mainly took the form of additional money balances accumulated through foreign trade.
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