Mercantilist

And Lincoln was what, back then, was called a mercantilist, ie. he was in favor of gov't giving sweetheart deals to favored business interests. ❋ Ann Althouse (2009)

[Sidenote: Restrictions on Colonial Industry] (2) The chief concern of the mercantilist was the framing of such governmental regulations of trade as would deter colonial commerce or industry from taking a turn which conceivably might lessen the prosperity of the British manufacturers or shippers, on whom Parliament depended for taxes. ❋ Carlton J. H. Hayes (1923)

With the large reserve accumulation and an explosive export growth, China has been described as mercantilist by some observers.

Change just a few nouns and Blizzard's complaints about Chinese gold farmers begin to sound like Washington's criticism of China's real-world "mercantilist" behavior, especially when globe-trotting Chinese diplomats clinch deal after multibillion-dollar deal to lock down supplies of oil and natural resources, often with despotic regimes. ❋ Unknown (2007)

True, Colbert (1662-1683), the great "mercantilist" minister, did his best to encourage new industries, such as silk production, to make rules for the better conduct of old industries, and to lay taxes on such imported goods as might compete with home products, but French industry could not be made to thrive like that of England. ❋ Carlton J. H. Hayes (1923)

In the eighteenth century the "mercantilist" craze for seizing new markets and shutting out all possible rivals brought about most of the wars that desolated Europe. ❋ John Holland Rose (1898)

It's what inevitably happens when a large, productive country tries to run a "mercantilist" ❋ Steven Pearlstein (2011)

The global imbalances created by such 'mercantilist' and ❋ Unknown (2010)

Japan did so by boldly unfair "mercantilist" measures, like non-tariff barriers that kept U.S. imports out of Japan, and interlocking corporate ownership patterns that froze American and other foreign investors out of Japanese multinationals. ❋ Jenn Kepka (2010)

Summers, who is Obama's top economics adviser, reportedly said that free trade arguments no longer held when dealing with "mercantilist" powers, a reference to China. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The Chinese government practices the "mercantilist" theory of trade in which it deliberately imposes barriers to imports while. ❋ Unknown (2009)

But I would also say that Americans have been so strapped by high food, fuel and everything else prices lately that I think we're going to be buying less Chinese imports and China has had a kind of mercantilist system with us, where they take the money they get from the imports, use it to subsidize energy, keep their energy input costs very low, turn around and export to us these products that have been made with low energy costs, undersell our products and we buy more and more. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Any serious argument that China is running a mercantilist trade policy needs to look at the Chinese trade surplus with the rest of the world. ❋ Unknown (2011)

CGNP's interest in Kalahari, meanwhile, only really makes sense if you take a long-term view and subscribe to China's mercantilist approach to natural resources. ❋ Liam Denning (2011)

The basic findings: China is a mercantilist and authoritarian state that is determined to appropriate not only U.S. jobs but also U.S. advanced technology through illegal subsidies, suppression of worker rights, and deals with U.S. industry that are one part lucrative carrot (cheap wages, state capital) and one part illegal stick (if you want to do business in China, take a Chinese partner and share your trade secrets). ❋ Robert Kuttner (2011)