Mercantilism

Takashi Negishi and Takashi Negishi
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Takashi Negishi: The Japan Academy
Takashi Negishi: The University of Tokyo

Chapter Chapter 1 in Developments of International Trade Theory, 2014, pp 3-8 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract According to Schumpeter, the construction of scientific economics was started in the late eighteenth century on two different foundations made in earlier periods. The first one is the ancient and medieval economic thought of philosophers, while the second one is popular arguments of current practical economic problems in the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries (Schumpeter 1954, pp. 9–10). The medieval theories of just price and usuary can be considered as representative examples of the former. The latter is, of course, related to what is now called mercantilism. Since it deeply concerned with problems of international trade, our explanation of the development of the theory of international trade is also to start with the consideration of mercantilism.

Keywords: Mercantilism; Price-specie-flow mechanism; Primitive accumulation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1007/978-4-431-54433-3_1

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