mercantilist
Speech parts
1. mercantilist - Noun
2. mercantilist - Adjective
Meaning
mercantilist (comparative more mercantilist, superlative most mercantilist)
Of, pertaining to, or believing in mercantilism.
mercantilist (plural mercantilists)
(economics) One who believes in mercantilism.
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Examples
Too many countries that do not play by the free trade rules of the World Trade Organization - including, notably mercantilist China and monopolist Saudi Arabia - have been allowed in, to the detriment of both the WTO and the liberal trading environment it is supposed to sponsor.
The General Theory was not truly revolutionary at all but merely old and oft-refuted mercantilist and inflationist fallacies dressed up in shiny new garb, replete with newly constructed and largely incomprehensible jargon.
British mercantilist writers were themselves divided on whether domestic controls were necessary.
Christian IV (reigned 1588–1648) first initiated the policy of expanding Denmark's overseas trade, as part of the mercantilist trend then popular in European governing circles.
Legacy Adam Smith Adam Smith rejected the mercantilist focus on production, arguing that consumption was paramount to production.
Mercantilism was centred on England and France, and it was in these states that mercantilist polices were most often enacted.