Noun
an economic system (Europe in 18th century) to increase a nation's wealth by government regulation of all of the nation's commercial interests
transactions (sales and purchases) having the objective of supplying commodities (goods and services)
Source: WordNetIn the last quarter of the eighteenth century bourgeois Europe needed to emancipate itself from that combination of feudalism and commercial capitalism which we know as mercantilism. C. L. R. James
Chinese mercantilism is not free trade, but it is far better than American militarism. Ilana Mercer
Libertarianism, the political philosophy of rugged individualism, ought to hold a natural appeal to tolerant, anti-statist, free-trade conservatives who deplore the turn taken by the party of Abraham Lincoln toward racial prejudice, authoritarianism, and mercantilism. Jacob Weisberg
Mercantilism is based upon the idea that a nation's wealth and security depend upon its ability to regulate and control its external trade at the expense of others. Peter Dicken
A number of scholars found important flaws with mercantilism long before Adam Smith developed an ideology that could fully replace it. Source: Internet
A system of mercantilism in commercial monopolies was established. Source: Internet