2. Noun. One who believes in mercantilism. ¹
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Definition of Mercantilist
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mercantilist
Literary usage of Mercantilist
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Josiah Tucker, Economist: A Study in the History of Economics by Walter Ernest Clark (1903)
"TUCKER A NEO-mercantilist Tucker is a neo-mercantilist in the sense that he takes
issue with old-line mercantilism in some points: (1) He does not deify the ..."
2. The Continental System: An Economic Interpretation by Eli Filip Heckscher, Harald Westergaard (1922)
"mercantilist IMPORT OF THE BLOCKADE The blockade undoubtedly had its root in the
... Here, therefore, the external contrast with the mercantilist commercial ..."
3. Immigration and Labor: The Economic Aspects of European Immigration to the by Isaac Aaronovich Hourwich (1922)
"There is a tendency to view with disapproval "the sending back to the old country
of the savings of the immigrant," upon the old mercantilist theory that ..."
4. Readings in Industrial Society: A Study in the Structure and Functioning of by Leon Carroll Marshall (1918)
"THE mercantilist REGULATIONS BECOME ONEROUS' In every quarter, and at every
moment, the hand of government was felt. Duties on importation, and duties on ..."
5. Surveys, Historic and Economic by William James Ashley (1900)
"... indeed, he was in spirit, though only as the mercantilist movement as a whole
was a forerunner of Adam Smith and the school of natural liberty.4 But, ..."
6. Zimmermann on Ocean Shipping by Erich Walter Zimmermann (1921)
"The artificial restrictions of the mercantilist age invited smuggling, constant
warfare courted privateering, and piracy beckoned with large rewards. ..."
7. A Short History of English Commerce and Industry by Langford Lovell Price (1900)
"... and "mercantilist" arose in controversies about Indian trade. The permission,
originally granted to the East India ..."
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