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