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"If used in a mercantilistic manner" to disadvantage foreigners, "then we have major issues."

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 3, 2010

Under special trade treaties drawn up every five years, Finno-Soviet economic ties have taken on an almost mercantilistic flavor.

From Time Magazine Archive

But the mercantilistic germs show themselves even in Hutten and Luther.

From Principles of Political Economy, Vol. II by Roscher, Wilhelm

On the mercantilistic object of the greater number of prohibitions of coffee, in the 18th century, see Dohm, über Kaffeegesetzgebung, in the D. Museum, Bd.,

From Principles of Political Economy, Vol. II by Roscher, Wilhelm

And so Sully, Economics, L, XII, XVI, was in favor of laws regulating outlay mainly from "mercantilistic" reasons, that the country might not be impoverished by the purchase of foreign expensive articles.

From Principles of Political Economy, Vol. II by Roscher, Wilhelm