Transactions (sales and purchases) having the objective of supplying commodities (goods and services)
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mercantilismo Catalan
mercantilisme An economic system (Europe in 18th century) to increase a nation's wealth by government regulation of all of the nation's commercial interests.
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This economic theory and the system based upon it are called mercantilism.
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Most of the men who wrote the Constitution subscribed to mercantilism so defined.
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But meanwhile, it was to destroy mercantilism.
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I argued with a reverend about witchcraft and mercantilism, and overnight ordered an episode of The Simpsons.
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Britain's Prime Minster Gordon Brown on Friday described this as "financial mercantilism" that carries major risks.
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One columnist called the rotund, white-bearded figure "the leading symbol of the hagiography of US mercantilism."
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That would work well in the gardens of Kensington Palace, whose architecture so strongly recalls the age of mercantilism.
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As dark as the library had been, she might have grabbed a treatise on the history of mercantilism in India.
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Her narrative logic was not the brutal mercantilism that drove Armada, but could it be alien to all its citizens?
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The city's new mercantilism was unrewarded; markets did not open for its exports; the war blocked its sources of uncommon commodities.
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The ruling economic policy of 1787, both in the young republic and abroad, went under the label of "mercantilism".
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The eurozone is becoming a vehicle for German mercantilism, whereby the German people are first beggared in order subsequently to beggar others.
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EU enlargement is a thinly disguised exercise in mercantilism tinged with the maudlin ideology of embracing revenant brothers long lost to communism.
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Beijing started the "war" in the 1990s with its mercantilism and serially unkept commitments on market access and intellectual property protection.
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The British leader warned earlier in the day against a protectionist retreat into "financial mercantilism" which would leave the world poorer.
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In previous centuries, Europe exported its excess labor and surplus capacity to its colonies - an economic system known as "mercantilism".