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An economic system (Europe in 18th C) to increase a nation's wealth by government regulation of all of the nation's commercial interests
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mercantilism
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Mercantilism was an economic theory and practice, dominant in modernized parts of Europe during the 16th to the 18th century, that promoted governmental regulation of a nation's economy for the purpose of augmenting state power at the expense of rival national ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
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1834, from French mercantilisme ; see mercantile + -ism . Related: mercantilist .
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n. an economic system (Europe in 18th C) to increase a nation's wealth by government regulation of all of the nation's commercial interests [syn: mercantile system ] transactions (sales and purchases) having the objective of supplying commodities (goods ...
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n. An economic theory that holds that the prosperity of a nation depends upon its supply of capital, and that the global volume of trade is "unchangeable".
Usage examples of mercantilism.
If it was possible to believe that mercantilism confused wealth and money, this is probably because money for the mercantilists had the power of representing all possible wealth, because it was the universal instrument for the analysis and representation of wealth, because it covered the entire extent of its domain leaving no residuum.
Oblomov is representative of serfdom in its classic, precapitalistic stage and can only be fully understood in sharp contrast with Stolz, whose mercantilism is ascendant on the eve of the emancipation.
I understand perfectly, politics and mercantilism I have mastered, but magicks are color to a blind man.
Pure zero-sum mercantilism, red in tooth and nail, in an environment where they have barely invented banking, never mind the limited liability company.
The counts of the Palatinate had been mercantilists before mercantilism, so to speak.