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Article: Reconsideration of economic views of a classical empire and a nation-state during the mercantilist ages.(Report)
- Article from:
- The American Journal of Economics and Sociology
- Article date:
- July 1, 2009
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Introduction
DIFFERENT SOCIETIES ESTABLISHED and developed different types of states and empires in history. It is evident that in spite of some similarities, the nature of characteristics of the political and economic aims of the empires (1) and national states are different. (2) Because of the Dutch commercial supremacy and strong position of the Ottoman Empire during the early modern period, it would be interesting to concentrate on the comparison of the Dutch and Ottoman economic policies in order to understand the main differences between the imperial and national views of the economy.
The Ottoman state evolved from the frontier of the ...