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Article: Mercantilism
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- Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World
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MERCANTILISM
MERCANTILISM.
Mercantilism was an economic "system" that developed in Europe during the period of the new monarchies (c. 1500) and culminated with the rise of the absolutist states (c. 1600
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1700). Mercantilism was not characterized by the blind adherence to a single, precisely defined economic theorem. Rather, its adherents embraced, in various degrees, parts of a set of commonly held theoretical beliefs or tendencies that were best suited to the needs of a particular time and state. The underlying principles of mercantilism included (1) the belief that the amount of wealth in the world was relatively static; (2) the belief that a country's wealth could best be ...
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