Mercantilism as a Rent-Seeking Society

Barry Baysinger, Robert Ekelund and Robert Tollison

Chapter 14 in 40 Years of Research on Rent Seeking 2, 2008, pp 475-508 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The proposal of any new law or regulation of commerce which comes from this order [merchants and manufacturers], ought never to be adopted till after having been long and carefully examined, not only with the most scrupulous, but with the most suspicious attention. It comes from an order of men, whose interest is never exactly the same with that of the public, who have generally an interest to deceive and even to oppress the public, and who accordingly have, upon many occasions, both deceived and oppressed it.

Date: 2008
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-79247-5_28

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