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  • noun Plural form of mercantilist.

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  • In particular, that ill-associated group of seventeenth - and early eighteenth-century pamphleteers we call the mercantilists deserve their place in the history of economic thought if only because they annoyed people like Hume and Adam Smith (among others) sufficiently to get economic inquiry started along its present lines.

    The Multinational Corporation and the Nation-State Heilbroner, Robert L. 1971

  • These thinkers were then known as mercantilists; today they tend to identify themselves as political economists—with an emphasis on the political.

    Economic Principals David Warsh 1993

  • Fundamentally, the study of macroeconomics begins to take shape during this period, that is, "mercantilists" began to understand the larger implications of the accumulation of capital and the necessary role of the state in the accumulation and preservation of capital.

    Capitalism, Fascism, and Socialism 2009

  • Let's also talk about and multinational reactions to the mercantilists.

    Dave Johnson: Consensus Grows: Confront China on Trade Dave Johnson 2010

  • Let's also talk about and multinational reactions to the mercantilists.

    Dave Johnson: Consensus Grows: Confront China on Trade Dave Johnson 2010

  • Probably not by the velvet-gloved mercantilists in Tokyo and Berlin, who will coolly assess his seriousness and fold their cards if convinced of it, but by Beijing.

    Ian Fletcher: Mitt Romney's Plan to Replace Free Trade Ian Fletcher 2011

  • Probably not by the velvet-gloved mercantilists in Tokyo and Berlin, who will coolly assess his seriousness and fold their cards if convinced of it, but by Beijing.

    Ian Fletcher: Mitt Romney's Plan to Replace Free Trade Ian Fletcher 2011

  • The mercantilists thought this was a good idea because they identified wealth not with the goods that money can buy but with the money itself.

    Cameron's Comedy Economics Jamie Whyte 2011

  • Probably not by the velvet-gloved mercantilists in Tokyo and Berlin, who will coolly assess his seriousness and fold their cards if convinced of it, but by Beijing.

    Ian Fletcher: Mitt Romney's Plan to Replace Free Trade Ian Fletcher 2011

  • Probably not by the velvet-gloved mercantilists in Tokyo and Berlin, who will coolly assess his seriousness and fold their cards if convinced of it, but by Beijing.

    Ian Fletcher: Mitt Romney's Plan to Replace Free Trade Ian Fletcher 2011

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