Mercantilism

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American History

 

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Lavonne M

 

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March 27, 2016

 

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But in fact, Mercantilists misunderstood the concept of mercantalism, arguing that an increase in the money supply meant that everyone gets richer, when actually only the parent country gets rich. Adam Smith, the "Father of Modern Economics", had something to say about mercantilism: "To prohibit a great people, however, for making all that they can of every part of their own produce, or from employing their stock and industry in the way that they judge most advantageous to themsleves, is a manifest violation of the most sacred rights of mankind" (The American Pageant, 120)...
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Their theories also had several problems, and the replacement of mercantilism did not come until Adam Smith published The Wealth of Nations in 1776. This book outlines the base of what is today known as classical economics. Smith spends part of the book rebutting the arguments of the mercantilists, though often these are simplified or exaggerated versions of mercantilist thought...
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