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- Historical discussions over the nuances of the mercantilist economy are exhaustive; there is general agreement that early modern countries strove to achieve a protectionist economy, using some variation of tariffs on imports, regulation through trade monopolies, taxes on sales, and expansion into new markets, either through subsidies, trade penetration, or outright colonization.
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The mercantilist explanation for what kept the early modern economy running is quite straightforward. The kingdoms of Spain, Portugal, Great Britain, and France as well as the Dutch Republic each sought to accumulate wealth through advantageous overseas trading arrangements and colonies, while thwarting the ambitions of their rivals to do the same.
Jan 10, 2022 · First published Mon Jan 10, 2022. Economic discourse of the early modern period offers an analysis of specific core phenomena: property, money, commerce, trade, public finance, population growth, and economic development, as well as investigations into economic inequality and distributive justice.
Early Modern Economic History In The Long Run. R. Bin Wong. and. Ajit Sinha. Published Online:June 2005 https://doi.org/10.1521/siso.68.1.80.25759.
The Historical Study of Economic Growth and Decline in Early Modern History; By C. H. Wilson, Professor of Modern History in the University of Cambridge, and Professor of History and Civilization in the European University Institute at Florence Edited by E. E. Rich, C. H. Wilson; General editor D. C. Coleman, P. Mathias, M. M. Postan
- C. H. Wilson
- 1977
The authors argue that it was the first modern economy, and defend their position with detailed analyses of its major economic sectors, as well as investigations of social structure and macro-economic performance. Dutch economic history is placed in its European and world context, and inter-continental and colonial trade are discussed fully.
- Jan de Vries, Ad van der Woude
- 1997
Nov 3, 2014 · This chapter considers the emergence of the new, ‘global’ economy by focusing on three central topics: the merchants who sought opportunities, the growth in state regulation over commerce, and finally the material substance of early modern trade through the exchange of commodities, both new and old, that exposed Europe to a broader variety ...
Oct 13, 2020 · This chapter reviews historians, economists’ and other scholars’ debates on markets, mercantilism and state formation since the Renaissance with specific respect to economic policies known under the “mercantilist” and “Cameralist” label, and their contributions made to the unfolding and idiosyncratic varieties of capitalism in early ...
