Mercantilism

Helge Peukert ()
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Chapter Chapter 3 in Handbook of the History of Economic Thought, 2012, pp 93-121 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract In a narrow sense mercantilism describes the pattern of economic policy of the European states in the times of absolutism. In a broader sense it means (a) an epoch of economic history, (b) an economic doctrine, and (c) a general pattern of economic policy (Schefold 1997, p. 163). It stretches over the seventeenth and eighteenth century, especially in England, but also in France (Colbert [1661–1683]) where it was defi nitely superseded by the physiocratic movement in the middle of the eighteenth century and declined already after the death of Louis XIV in 1715.

Keywords: Eighteenth Century; Foreign Trade; Precious Metal; Active Balance; Economic Thought (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-8336-7_3

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