- economy, many
mercantilists disagreed. The
early modern era was one of
letters patent and government-imposed monopolies; some
mercantilists supported these...
-
opposition to the
views of Adam
Smith and the
English economists. The
mercantilists were
believers in
nations keeping a
positive balance of
trade at all...
- in the 1760s,
becoming a
prominent critic of Britain's
taxation and
mercantilist policies towards the
American colonies.
Washington imported luxury goods...
-
previous mercantilist writers. This has led to
disputes on
whether Cantillon can
justly be
considered a
mercantilist or one of the
first anti-
mercantilists, given...
-
writer on
economics and is
often referred to as the last of the
early mercantilists. Most notably, he is
known for
serving as the
director of the East India...
- democracy, rule of law, and
equality under the law.
Liberals also
ended mercantilist policies,
royal monopolies, and
other trade barriers,
instead promoting...
- had wide-ranging
plans to grow
French commerce and trade. Colbert's
mercantilist administration established new
industries and
encouraged manufacturers...
-
colonies were redundant, and that free
trade should replace the old
mercantilist policies that had
characterised the
first period of
colonial expansion...
- the
capital of the
captaincy in Guatemala, its
legal prohibition under mercantilist Spanish law from
trade with its
southern neighbor Panama, then part of...
-
within a natural-law perspective. Two groups, who
later were
called "
mercantilists" and "physiocrats", more
directly influenced the
subsequent development...
