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Furthermore, "in the mercantilist view no child was too young to go into industry".

Rather, each mercantilist writer tended to focus on a single area of the economy.

He is a mercantilist, judging economic activities by their contribution to exports.

This is the mercantilist version, advanced by America's dominant high-tech companies.

At this time they operated largely within the mercantilist premises of their opponents.

To a certain extent, mercantilist doctrine itself made a general theory of economics impossible.

However, trade opportunities were restricted by the mercantilist policies of the European powers.

The party takes mercantilist positions in supporting protectionist policies on international trade.

Mercantilist ideas continue in the theories of economic nationalism and neomercantilism.

The economic reforms of the second half of the 18th century were based on a mercantilist logic.

This change prompted the reincarnation of the mercantilist ideas that were thought to have died out.

Mercantilist theory varied in sophistication from one writer to another and evolved over time.

This imbalance caused great displeasure among the mercantilist economists of the day.

High tariffs, especially on manufactured goods, are an almost universal feature of mercantilist policy.

He followed the mercantilist theories of his time.

Under Duke John, an early mercantilist, town and castle experienced an economic boom.

William Petty, a strong mercantilist, is generally credited with being the first to use empirical analysis to study the economy.

He was active and effective as Foreign Minister, taking a mercantilist approach to diplomacy.

Whose version is most convincing - that of big business, populist, xenophobe or mercantilist?

International relations in this post-cold-war era have become increasingly technocratic and mercantilist.

And it did not help that the play was embraced by the mercantilist "Anglo-Saxons."

Often, the rivals are themselves Western companies that have moved overseas to enjoy foreign mercantilist policies and partnerships.

Liberal economists have expressed doubts about its militarist and mercantilist tendencies.

He was a defender of the mercantilist system of government-licensed controlled trade.

British mercantilist writers were themselves divided on whether domestic controls were necessary.

Keynes said mercantilist policies generally improved both domestic and foreign investment.

Some other systems that do copy several mercantilist policies, such as Japan's economic system, are also sometimes called neo-mercantilist.

Still, Germany would pursue a mercantilist economic policy with state support for large industry, intervention into markets, and the nationalization of public goods.

In that vein, liberals ended mercantilist policies, royal monopolies, and various other restraints on economic activities.

Whereas later economic ideas were often developed by academics and philosophers, almost all mercantilist writers were merchants or government officials.

"The worry I have is that the debate gets very mercantilist," said Professor Robinson at Berkeley.

Were these mercantilist practices stopped, many more American products would flow out of West Coast ports to Asia.

American problems with China all relate to Chinese strength: the military buildup, increasing chauvinism, mercantilist economic policies, refusal to sign international agreements on proliferation.

A SECOND reason, one that no politician in these mercantilist times would admit, is imports.

At the time when the plant was planned, Francisco Franco was still in charge of the Spanish government which pursued a fiercely mercantilist economic policy.

Buen Retiro porcelain was one of the products that drove mercantilist royal policy during the Spanish Age of Enlightenment.

Baquíjano was a mercantilist economic thinker, although he was also influenced by the English economist Josiah Child, a qualified exponent of free trade.

The Netherlands, which had become the financial centre of Europe by being its most efficient trader, had little interest in seeing trade restricted and adopted few mercantilist policies.

As England became increasingly mercantilist and secularist, the humanist educational values of the Renaissance, which had enshrined scholasticism, came to be regarded by many as irrelevant.

The global expansion of European commerce in Leibniz's time provided mercantilist motivations for a universal language of trade so that traders could communicate with any natural language.

Under mercantilist economic systems, European governments with colonial interests often granted large and extremely lucrative monopolies to companies trading in particular regions, such as the Dutch East India Company.

Maximilian rehabilitated the Bavarian state finances, he reorganised the Bavarian administration and army, he introduced mercantilist measures as well as a new corpus juris, the Codex Maximilianeus.

Martin Wolf has argued that "inordinately mercantilist currency policies" were a significant cause of the U.S. trade deficit, indirectly driving a flood of money into the U.S. as described above.

You agree that the outgoing Christian Democratic President, Vinicio Cerezo Arevalo, failed miserably to: (1) control the corrupt and murderous army, and (2) straighten out an unfair, mercantilist economic system.

The main concept of absolute advantage is generally attributed to Adam Smith for his 1776 publication An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations in which he countered mercantilist ideas.

The dark view of human nature also fit well with the Puritan view of the world, and some of the most stridently mercantilist legislation, such as the Navigation Ordinance of 1651, was enacted by the government of Oliver Cromwell.

Further signaling more mercantilist tensions was a warning last week from Deputy Treasury Secretary M. Peter McPherson about the European Community's plan to eliminate all remaining internal trade barriers by 1992, creating one huge market with 320 million people.

In an essay appearing in the 14 May 2007 issue of Newsweek, business columnist Robert J. Samuelson argued that China was pursuing an essentially mercantilist trade policy that threatened to undermine the post-World War II international economic structure.

In their view, a mercantilist American administration would prefer to "manage trade" with Japan and other big trading partners one on one, reserving for itself a guaranteed share of their markets, rather than leave disputes over cars or semiconductors to international bodies like the new World Trade Organization.

Though they like to consider themselves modern capitalist economies, Mr. de Soto says, the countries of the region are really mercantilist societies whose principal products are privilege, corruption and inefficiency - a result of a system imposed during colonial times and only refined during 150 years of independence.