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Definition of Mercantile system
1. Noun. An economic system (Europe in 18th century) to increase a nation's wealth by government regulation of all of the nation's commercial interests.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mercantile System
Literary usage of Mercantile system
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith, James Edwin Thorold Rogers (1869)
"CONCLUSION OP THE mercantile system. ... of importation arc the two great engines
by which the mercantile system proposes to enrich every country, yet, ..."
2. The Growth of English Industry and Commerce by William Cunningham (1892)
"I. THE FALL OF THE mercantile system. AD 1689 246. ... and their blunders were
many, — the fact still remains that the mercantile system justified itself in ..."
3. Report of the Annual Meeting (1900)
"The mercantile system. By Professor GJ STOKES. The policy of Free-trade ...
The principles" of the mercantile system may be considered in relation to (1) ..."
4. A History of Commerce by Clive Day (1907)
"Failure of the mercantile system to affect the distribution of the precious metals.
— Such were, in brief, the characteristics of commercial policy in the ..."
5. National System of Political Economy by Friedrich List, Stephen Colwell (1856)
"THE INDUSTRIAL SYSTEM, (IMPROPERLY CALLED THE mercantile system). WHEN great
nations are formed by a union of lesser nations, under an hereditary monarchy, ..."
6. A History of Commerce by Clive Day (1914)
"Failure of the mercantile system to affect the distribution of the precious metals.
— Such were, in brief, the characteristics of commercial policy in the ..."
7. Elements of Political Economy by Arthur Latham Perry (1866)
"ON THE mercantile system. THERE have been three epochs in the progress of the
science of ^Exchange. Each of these has been marked by a theory of its own, ..."
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