mercantilism
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In a nutshell, mercantilists believed a country should try to maximize exports and minimize imports.
From Washington Post • May 31, 2018
Also, like those mercantilists of yore, he conflates our balance of trade with national security, though the exact connection between the two remains a bit muddled.
From Washington Post • May 31, 2018
From its centuries-old core, its expansion has been spurred by sultanates, seafaring mercantilists and great world powers, which all saw economic opportunity in its protected inlets.
From Washington Post
They were, as a matter of fact, 18th-Century "mercantilists" in their primary economic assumptions.
From Time Magazine Archive
It was the day of the mercantilists, when gold and silver were given a grotesquely exaggerated place in the national economy and self-sufficiency was deemed to be the goal of every great nation.
From Our Foreigners A Chronicle of Americans in the Making by Orth, Samuel Peter
Vocabulary lists containing mercantilism
American History I
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Human Geography - High School
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Western Europe - Introductory
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