Mercantilist
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Mercantilist is an adjective meaning Of, pertaining to, or believing in mercantilism.
Meaning
Of, pertaining to, or believing in mercantilism.
More Meanings
- (economics) One who believes in mercantilism.
Example Sentences
On this point there was no difference between mercantilists and feudalists, between crowned planners and vested interests, between centralizing bureaucrats and conservative particularists.
According to the mercantilist thinking that dominated European thought between the 16th and 18th centuries, poverty was socially useful. True, it was miserable for the poor. But it also kept the economic engine humming by ensuring the availability of plentiful cheap labour.
Word Forms
- mercantilists
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include commercial, mercantile, neomercantilistic, monetarist, mercatorial, monetaristic.
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